Game Character Orientation via Mirror-Reversal Processing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Opponent type games that display characters on a screen often show characters with unnatural heading directions, leading to an uncomfortable experience for players, as people tend to draw moving objects facing left, resulting in characters on the left side of the screen being headed in inappropriate directions.

Innovation Solution

An information processing device that includes an input unit for user-drawn pictures, a display unit for showing these pictures on the screen, a picture reverse unit that mirrors the input pictures to adjust their direction, and a generating unit that uses feature values to determine battle parameters for the game, ensuring characters are displayed facing each other appropriately.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If user-drawn pictures are displayed directly on the screen, then player creativity is maximized, but characters may appear with unnatural heading directions causing discomfort

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveplayer creativityVSAvoidplayer discomfort

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies mirror reversal to the picture displayed on the left side of the screen. The picture reverse unit inverts the image horizontally, transforming a left-heading character into a right-heading character, thereby resolving the directional inconsistency without limiting player creativity in the drawing process

Inventive Principle:

Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

Solution Approach 2:

The picture reverse unit performs mirror reversal before the picture is displayed on the screen. By preprocessing the image to correct the heading direction, the system prevents the unnatural appearance from occurring in the first place, rather than correcting it after display

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Device complexity

If no picture processing is applied, then processing complexity is minimized, but character heading directions become unnatural

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprocessing complexityVSAvoidcharacter heading direction

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSShape

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies a simple mirror reversal operation to the picture on the left side, inverting its horizontal orientation. This minimal processing transformation corrects the character heading direction from facing left to facing right, resolving the directional issue with the simplest possible image processing

Inventive Principle:

Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

Data Source

PatentUS9295913B2Information processing devices, information processing method, and information processing means

Publication Date: 2016.03.29 RICOH CO LTD

AI summary

An information processing device configured to play a game based on battle parameters generated from pictures includes an input unit inputting a picture drawn by a user; a display unit displaying on a left or right side of a display area of the display unit the input picture drawn by the user by arranging the input picture input by the input unit; a picture reverse unit processing the picture input by the input unit by mirror-reversal of the input picture; a generating unit for generating battle parameters being used for the game using a feature value of the picture input by the input unit; and an executing unit executing the game based on the battle parameters generated by the generating unit, wherein the picture to be displayed on the left side of the display area of the display unit is processed by mirror-reversal by the picture reverse unit.