Avatar Voice Volume Adjustment in Noisy Virtual Spaces
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Solution Overview
Problem
In noisy virtual environments, existing voice chat systems struggle to facilitate clear communication between avatars due to limitations in sound volume control and potential disturbances from other avatars, leading to difficulty in hearing desired conversations.
Innovation Solution
An information processing system that includes multiple user terminals and a server, which analyze and adjust voice data volume based on association and noise levels to ensure clear communication between avatars.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If sound volume parameter is increased to make voice audible in noisy environment, then voice can be heard by desired avatar, but other nearby avatars are disturbed by loud voice
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by making sound volume adjustment specific to target avatars rather than global. The sound collection object's avatar receives enhanced volume for the sound source object's voice, while other avatars experience normal or reduced volume, creating localized audio quality differences based on avatar associations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring the noisy environment and dynamically adjusting sound volume parameters. The sound collection object's terminal receives feedback about ambient noise levels and automatically adjusts the volume of the sound source object's voice to ensure audibility while minimizing disturbance to others.
2Ease of operation
If sound volume parameter is controlled only on sound source object side, then transmission can be managed, but sound collection object cannot adjust for personal hearing needs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent inverts the traditional one-way control model by enabling bidirectional sound parameter control. Instead of only the sound source object controlling volume, the sound collection object can also adjust sound parameters for received voices, allowing personal hearing needs to be accommodated while maintaining transmission management.
3Measurement precision
If user must manually determine whether to change sound volume setting, then control precision is maintained, but responsiveness to changing noise conditions decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies self-service by automatically monitoring noise levels and adjusting sound volume parameters without requiring manual user intervention. The sound collection object's terminal autonomously detects changes in ambient noise and adjusts the volume of target avatars' voices accordingly, maintaining both precision and responsiveness.
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AI summary
An information processing system that allows a user to establish a conversation with a desired person through an avatar even in a noisy environment in a virtual space is provided. The information processing system that comprises multiple user terminals, each including a voice input unit and a voice output unit, and provides a virtual space including avatars linked to the multiple user terminals, includes a unit to generate voice data whose sound source is each avatar linked to each user terminal, and one or more processors and/or circuitry configured to execute a voice data transmitting processing, execute an association determination processing, execute a voice data analysis processing, and execute a sound volume adjustment processing that, when first voice data is associated with a second avatar and second voice data disturbs the first voice data, adjusts a sound volume of voice data to be transmitted to a second user terminal.