Composite Video Image Generation for Interactive Content
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of interactive content, such as video games, face challenges in multitasking by needing to switch attention from the interactive content to view portable device content, often resulting in distraction or interruption of the gaming experience due to the inability to seamlessly access supplementary information from software applications on their portable devices.
Innovation Solution
A data processing apparatus that generates composite video images by integrating interactive content with content from portable devices, allowing users to view both simultaneously through a single output, using first and second image processing circuitry, communication circuitry, control circuitry, and output circuitry to manage and composite video streams from interactive content and portable device applications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users view portable device content during interactive content sessions, then users can access supplementary information, but users experience distraction or interruption of the interactive content
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the video output from the portable device and the interactive content into a single composite video stream that is displayed on the television display. This merging allows users to view both types of content simultaneously on one screen without switching devices or interrupting the interactive content session, thereby maintaining continuity while enabling access to supplementary information.
Solution Approach 2:
The television display acts as an intermediary device that receives video signals from both the portable device and the interactive content source, processes them into a composite output, and presents them together. This intermediary approach enables seamless integration of multiple content sources without requiring direct user interaction with either device individually, thus preventing distraction while maintaining access to both content types.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users switch attention between interactive content and portable device, then users can access information from both sources, but users lose immersion in the interactive content
Solution Approach 1:
By merging the video outputs of the portable device and interactive content into a single composite video stream displayed on the television, users can access information from both sources simultaneously without switching their attention or physical focus. This eliminates the need to repeatedly move attention between devices, thereby maintaining immersion in the interactive content while providing access to supplementary information.
3Adaptability or versatility
If users pause interactive content to view portable device content, then users can access portable device information, but users experience loss of immersion and potential progression loss
Solution Approach 1:
The composite video output merges portable device content and interactive content into a single continuous stream that is always displayed on the television. Users can view portable device information without pausing or interrupting the interactive content, as both are simultaneously visible in the composite output. This eliminates time loss and maintains continuous progression of the interactive content while providing access to supplementary information.
Data Source
AI summary
A data processing apparatus includes first image processing circuitry to generate first video images for an interactive content for display to a user, communication circuitry to receive, via a network, portable device data indicative of a state of a software application executed on a portable device associated with the user, second image processing circuitry to generate one or more second video images for display in dependence on the portable device data, control circuitry to set a control value in response to a user input by the user, and output circuitry to selectively output one of a first video image and a composite video image in dependence on the control value, where the composite video image comprises a portion comprising at least some of the first video image and another portion comprising at least some of a second video image.