Composite Video Stream Generation for Interactive Gaming
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Solution Overview
Problem
Interactive gaming applications often leave remote users feeling isolated, lacking awareness of other users' activities and opportunities for interaction during and outside gaming sessions.
Innovation Solution
A data processing apparatus that generates and outputs a composite video stream comprising composite video images from multiple user video streams, allowing users to view each other's activities, with selection and processing techniques to optimize relevance and visibility based on user preferences and relationships.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If multiple video streams are composited together to show other users' activities, then user interaction and awareness is improved, but device complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The composite video stream is segmented into multiple distinct video regions, each displaying a different user's activity. This segmentation allows the system to present multiple information streams simultaneously while maintaining organizational structure, reducing the cognitive load on users and making the complexity manageable through visual separation of content sources.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces a composite video stream as an intermediary that aggregates and presents multiple individual video streams in a unified format. This intermediary layer simplifies the complexity by providing a single integrated view that mediates between multiple independent video sources and the user's perception, reducing the need for users to manually manage multiple separate streams.
2Adaptability or versatility
If video streams are selected and composited based on user preferences and relationships, then relevance and engagement are improved, but processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
User preferences, relationships, and video stream selection criteria are pre-configured and stored in the system. When generating composite video streams, the system retrieves these pre-established parameters rather than computing them in real-time, significantly reducing processing time while maintaining high adaptability to individual user needs and preferences.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically selects and composites video streams based on pre-configured user preferences and relationship data without requiring manual intervention. This self-service approach enables the system to adaptively generate relevant composite streams while minimizing the time and computational resources needed for decision-making processes.
3Ease of operation
If composite video streams are generated in real-time during gaming sessions, then interaction opportunities are improved, but system performance and resource consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges multiple individual video streams into a single composite video stream that can be displayed and processed more efficiently. By combining multiple data sources into one unified stream with a single frame rate and resolution, the system reduces the overall computational burden and energy consumption compared to processing and displaying multiple separate high-performance video streams simultaneously.
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AI summary
A data processing apparatus comprises receiving circuitry to receive a plurality of video streams associated with a plurality of users, video stream compositing circuitry to generate a composite video stream comprising composite video images, each composite video image comprising a composite video representation associated with video images from two or more of the plurality of video streams, and output circuitry to output the composite video stream.