Digital Avatar Navigation Across Maps And Augmented Reality

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing virtual assistant systems lack seamless integration of navigation maps and augmented reality views, leading to disruptions in user interaction and inefficient processing when transitioning between these modes.

Innovation Solution

A method involving a digital avatar that interacts with voice, gestures, and facial expressions, allowing seamless transitions between a navigation map and mixed or augmented reality views by detecting user gestures or device movements, with the avatar remaining consistently present across modes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a digital avatar is displayed on a navigation map and transitions to augmented reality view, then user interaction consistency is improved, but processing overhead increases due to repeated avatar initialization

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser interaction consistencyVSAvoidprocessing overhead

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by initializing and loading the digital avatar in advance during the navigation map phase. When transitioning to augmented reality view, the pre-loaded avatar is reused rather than re-initialized, eliminating redundant processing overhead while maintaining consistent interaction across both views.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If the digital avatar is re-initialized when switching to augmented reality view, then view transition freshness is improved, but interaction continuity is disrupted

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveview transition freshnessVSAvoidinteraction continuity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system maintains continuity of useful action by keeping the digital avatar instance active and reusable across view transitions. The avatar remains in memory and continues its navigation guidance function seamlessly when switching between navigation map and augmented reality views, avoiding interaction disruptions while adapting to different display contexts.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #20Continuity of useful action

3Ease of manufacture

If separate avatar instances are used for navigation map and augmented reality views, then view-specific optimization is improved, but system resource consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveview-specific optimizationVSAvoidsystem resource consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies universality by designing a single digital avatar instance that serves multiple functions across different views. The same avatar object is used for both navigation map guidance and augmented reality overlay, eliminating the need for separate instances while maintaining view-specific optimization through contextual adaptation of the avatar's display and interaction behavior.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentEP4327187B1Method involving digital avatar

Publication Date: 2025.10.22 SALIENT WORLD AS

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AI summary

The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method, comprising: displaying on a screen (12) of a device (10) a navigation map (26) with a digital avatar (28), wherein the digital avatar displayed on the screen is capable of interacting with a user of the device with voice combined with at least one of gesture and facial expression; detecting a predetermined trigger event; and in response to detecting the predetermined trigger event, switching to displaying on the screen a mixed or augmented reality view, wherein the mixed or augmented reality view includes an image (46) captured by a camera (48) associated with the device, and wherein a digital avatar (28') is overlaid on the image captured by the camera.