Avatar Replication Across Heterogeneous Computing Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current media communication systems lack seamless integration and synchronization of avatars across different computing devices, leading to inconsistencies and limitations in user experience due to varying operating characteristics and resources.
Innovation Solution
A computer-readable storage medium with instructions that identify user profiles and operating characteristics, allowing avatars to be presented and transferred between devices, adapting to the resources available, and synchronizing interactions through speech recognition and synthesis technologies.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If avatars are presented across different computing devices with varying resources, then user experience consistency is improved, but device complexity and synchronization requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a copy of the avatar data model that can be replicated across multiple computing devices. The avatar information including characteristics, state, and operational parameters is copied from a source device to target devices, enabling consistent avatar presentation without requiring complex real-time synchronization mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent establishes a universal avatar data structure and communication protocol that can operate across different computing devices with varying resources. The same avatar framework and data format are used universally across desktop, mobile, and other platforms, simplifying the synchronization requirement by providing a device-agnostic solution.
2Adaptability or versatility
If avatars adapt to operating characteristics of different devices, then adaptability is improved, but information processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by adapting avatar presentation characteristics to match the specific operating characteristics of each computing device. The system adjusts avatar rendering, interaction methods, and resource allocation based on the local device capabilities while maintaining the core avatar identity and user profile consistency.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes operational parameters of the avatar based on device characteristics, such as adjusting resolution, frame rate, interaction sensitivity, and resource allocation. These parameter adjustments enable the avatar to adapt to different devices without requiring complete redesign or complex processing transformations.
3Ease of operation
If speech recognition and synthesis are used for avatar interactions, then user interaction quality is improved, but processing time and energy consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-processing and caching speech recognition models, synthesis engines, and language processing resources before they are needed during avatar interactions. Common speech patterns and responses are pre-computed and stored, reducing the real-time processing time and energy consumption during actual user interactions.
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AI summary
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a first computing device having a controller to present an avatar having characteristics that correlate to a user profile and that conform to operating characteristics of the first computing device, and transmit to a second computing device operational information associated with the avatar for reproducing at least in part the avatar at said second computing device. Other embodiments are disclosed.