Cloud Game Picture Display with Local Input Animation Overlay

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Solution Overview

Problem

The challenge of running cloud games on terminal devices with limited graphics processing and data computation capabilities, where locally downloaded gaming applications occupy significant memory space and affect data running processes, leading to reduced fluency and user satisfaction.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus that enables terminal devices to receive game pictures from cloud servers, locally draw operation animations based on user inputs, and superpose them on the game pictures, improving fluency and user satisfaction by mimicking local game control experiences.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If cloud games are run on terminal devices, then memory space is saved and data running process is improved, but network delay occurs and fluency is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvememory space occupancyVSAvoidnetwork delay

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the game system into two segments: the cloud server handles game logic and rendering, while the terminal device handles input capture and local animation drawing. This segmentation allows the terminal to operate independently for local animations, reducing network dependency and delay impact.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism where the terminal device receives control operations, draws local operation animations independently, and then superposes them on the game picture. This intermediary local animation drawing process eliminates the need for real-time round-trip communication for animation rendering, reducing network delay.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Device complexity

If cloud games are run on terminal devices, then device complexity is reduced, but user satisfaction is lowered due to lack of local control experience

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveterminal device requirementsVSAvoidlocal control experience

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a copy of the local control experience by drawing operation animations locally on the terminal device that mirror the user's input actions. This copied local animation is then superposed on the cloud game picture, giving users the sensation of direct local control without actually running the game locally.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The terminal device performs self-service by independently drawing operation animations based on user inputs without requiring server involvement. This self-service capability maintains user satisfaction with local control experience while keeping the overall system simple and cloud-based.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS12515127B2Picture display method and apparatus, terminal device, and storage medium

Publication Date: 2026.01.06 TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO LTD

AI summary

A picture display method includes receiving a game picture of a target game from a target container in a process of running the target game, the target game being a cloud game running on the target container; obtaining a control operation on the target game performed on the terminal device, and locally drawing an operation animation according to the control operation; and superposing the operation animation on the received game picture, and displaying, on a user interface, the game picture on which the operation animation is superposed.