Game Character Customization via Uploaded Image Feature Extraction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing game systems fail to effectively increase user affinity and interest by utilizing uploaded images, as they do not provide a meaningful integration of user-uploaded images into the game environment.
Innovation Solution
A game program and image output device that acquire and process user-uploaded images, associate their capture location with a game field, and integrate the images as game characters, allowing users to interact with them in a dynamic game environment, enhancing user engagement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If user-uploaded images are simply stored or displayed without integration into game environment, then storage and display functions are achieved, but user affinity and interest in the game are not effectively increased
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges user-uploaded images with game characters by extracting features from uploaded images and applying them to generate or customize game characters. This combining approach allows user content to become an integral part of the game experience, thereby increasing user affinity without requiring complete system redesign
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an image processing unit as an intermediary that bridges user-uploaded images and the game character system. This intermediary extracts features from uploaded images and transforms them into usable character attributes, simplifying the integration process while maintaining high user engagement
2Adaptability or versatility
If user-uploaded images are integrated into game characters through complex processing, then user affinity is increased, but processing time and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary processing of uploaded images by extracting key features and storing them in advance. When users want to create or customize game characters, the system can quickly retrieve and apply these pre-extracted features, significantly reducing processing time while maintaining high-quality character generation
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts only the essential features from uploaded images (such as facial features, color schemes, or distinctive characteristics) rather than processing the entire image. This selective extraction reduces processing time and computational resources while still achieving effective user engagement through personalized game characters
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AI summary
Provided is an image output device including image acquisition means for acquiring an image related to a subject captured by a user, position information acquisition means for acquiring position information indicating a position where the image is captured, generation means for generating a landscape image in which an image based on the image acquired by the image acquisition means is superimposed on an image obtained by capturing the landscape, when displaying the image obtained by capturing the landscape of position information acquired by the position information acquisition means, and image output means for outputting the landscape image.