Avatar Configuration System for VR Content Event Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Virtual reality systems lack the ability to enhance user experience during audio/visual content consumption, leading to feelings of solitude or isolation, as they often do not include interactive avatars to engage users.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and method for configuring an avatar responsive to video and audio signals, which detects events in the content, generates an event track, selects appropriate avatar configurations, and generates control data to configure the avatar in real-time, allowing the avatar to react to events and enhance user engagement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Temperature
If virtual reality systems provide immersive audio/visual content, then user immersion is improved, but user feelings of solitude or isolation worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an avatar as an intermediary entity between the user and the virtual environment. The avatar serves as a social mediator that provides companionship and interaction, thereby reducing feelings of solitude while maintaining immersive audio/visual content consumption.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically detects events in audio/visual content and configures avatar behavior without requiring manual user input. The avatar autonomously responds to content events, providing companionship service that adapts to the user's experience in real-time.
2Ease of operation
If the system detects and responds to events in audio/visual content, then user engagement is improved, but system complexity worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-defines multiple avatar configurations and behaviors that correspond to different types of content events. Instead of creating complex real-time responses, the system selects from pre-configured options based on detected events, reducing computational complexity while maintaining high user engagement.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes avatar parameters (such as orientation, expression, or configuration) in response to detected events in the audio/visual content. By modifying discrete parameters rather than complex behaviors, the system achieves responsive engagement with manageable complexity.
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AI summary
An apparatus for configuring an avatar responsive to a content having at least one of a video and an audio signal includes an authoring unit configured to detect one or more events in a content comprising at least one of a video and an audio signal, categorise one or more of the detected events, and generate an event track for the content, the event track comprising one or more of the categorised events associated with a respective time; a selecting unit configured to select a configuration of an avatar to correspond to a respective categorised event of the event track; and an output generator configured to generate control data to configure an avatar in response to a selected configuration.