Autonomous Moving Body Feeling Display Through Visual Figure States
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Existing autonomous moving bodies, such as robot apparatuses, struggle to intuitively convey their internal state or feelings to users, particularly when executing arithmetic processing and changing their motion based on environmental feedback.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus and method that utilize a control unit to display a figure corresponding to the autonomous moving body on a screen, changing its state based on sensed position changes and a feeling parameter, allowing for intuitive representation of the autonomous moving body's state to the user.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If the autonomous moving body internally executes arithmetic processing, then the processing capability is improved, but the intuitiveness of presenting the changing state to the user deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a figure as an intermediary visual element that mediates between the autonomous moving body's internal state and the user's perception. The figure's state (position, orientation, shape) serves as a visual representation of the body's internal arithmetic processing results, making abstract computational states tangible and intuitive for users without adding physical complexity to the body itself.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a visual copy (the figure) that represents the autonomous moving body's state. This figure is displayed on a screen and mirrors the body's position, orientation, and other state parameters, allowing users to intuitively understand the body's internal state through this visual replica without directly observing the physical body's internal processing.
2Loss of information
If the autonomous moving body conveys detailed internal state information, then the information completeness is improved, but the ease of user understanding deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by selectively representing different aspects of the autonomous moving body's state through different visual properties of the figure. Specific parameters (position, orientation, shape) are highlighted through corresponding visual characteristics, allowing users to understand relevant state information without being overwhelmed by complete technical data.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent utilizes color changes in the figure to convey the autonomous moving body's state and feelings. Different colors or color intensities represent different emotional states or operational modes, providing an intuitive visual cue system that is easily perceivable and interpretable by users, transforming abstract internal states into accessible visual information.
Data Source
AI summary
There is provided an information processing apparatus and an information processing method capable of intuitively and easily indicating a state of feeling of the autonomous moving body to the user. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit that, according to a change in a position of the autonomous moving body sensed by a sensing unit that senses the position of the autonomous moving body and a feeling parameter indicating the feeling of the autonomous moving body, causes a display screen to display a figure corresponding to the autonomous moving body while changing a state of the figure. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an apparatus and the like that controls an autonomous moving body.