Multi-Location Content Transition via Participant Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing video call and video game systems require users to be in the same room as the capture device, limiting mobility and seamless interaction across multiple physical locations within a building.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising servers, computing platforms, capture devices, and content devices that use machine-readable instructions to detect participants, determine their location, and seamlessly transition content presentation across multiple distinct physical locations, allowing users to move freely while maintaining interaction with content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users are confined to the same room as the capture device, then the system can maintain reliable video call and video game interactions, but user mobility and freedom of movement are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the building into multiple distinct physical locations, each equipped with its own capture device and content device. This segmentation allows users to move between locations while each location independently maintains capture and content presentation capabilities, thus preserving interaction continuity while enabling mobility.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces a server as an intermediary that coordinates between multiple capture devices and content devices across different locations. The server receives data from capture devices, determines user location, and directs content presentation to the appropriate content device, enabling seamless transitions as users move between locations.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple content devices are distributed across different locations, then user mobility is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Each location is equipped with a universal set of components (capture device, content device, and computing platform) that can serve multiple functions. The same type of device operates identically across all locations, simplifying the overall system architecture despite the distributed nature of the deployment.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where capture devices continuously monitor user presence and location, and this information is fed back to the server, which then directs content presentation to the appropriate content device. This automated feedback loop manages the complexity of coordinating multiple devices across locations.
3Ease of operation
If capture devices are positioned at multiple locations, then seamless content transition is enabled, but detection and tracking of user location becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges the detection capabilities of multiple capture devices into a unified location determination process. The server combines data from multiple capture devices to track user location and determine when users transition between locations, enabling seamless content transitions while managing the complexity of multi-device detection.
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AI summary
This disclosure presents systems and methods to facilitate interaction by one or more participants with content presented across multiple distinct physical locations. A current distinct physical location of a participant may be determined. In response to determining the current distinct physical location in which the participant is located, operation of one or more content devices physically present in the current distinct physical location may be effectuated.