Game Image Distribution with Selective Notification Overlay
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing image sharing system for game images often inadvertently discloses personal information by masking notification messages with black images, which hinders the viewing experience for users and is not preferable due to frequent display issues.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus that generates game images and notification messages, allowing users to set whether to include a camera image in the distribution image, superimposing or excluding notification messages based on user settings to control visibility during streaming distribution.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If notification messages are masked with a black image to protect personal information, then privacy protection is improved, but the viewing experience for users deteriorates due to frequent display of black images
Solution Approach 1:
The notification message is segmented into two separate image layers: a system image containing the notification message and a game image containing the game content. This segmentation allows independent processing of each layer, enabling the notification message to be excluded from distribution while maintaining game image quality, thus resolving the contradiction between privacy protection and viewing experience.
Solution Approach 2:
The notification message is extracted from the composite image into a separate system image that can be independently controlled. By taking out the notification message component, the system can selectively exclude it from distribution images while preserving the game image content, thereby protecting privacy without degrading the viewing experience for other users.
2Adaptability or versatility
If camera images are included in distribution images to enhance user engagement, then user engagement is improved, but the risk of personal information disclosure increases through notification messages
Solution Approach 1:
The distribution image is segmented into separate game image and system image components. This allows the camera image (game image) to be included for user engagement while the system image containing notification messages with personal information is excluded, thus resolving the contradiction between engagement and privacy risk.
Solution Approach 2:
Different quality requirements are applied to different parts of the distribution image. The game image portion maintains high quality for user engagement, while the system image portion containing sensitive notification information is selectively removed or masked, achieving local optimization of quality and privacy protection.
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AI summary
A message generation unit generates a notification message. A setting unit registers setting information determining whether or not a camera image is to be included in a distribution image. A distribution processing unit distributes a distribution image. When the camera image is set to be included in the distribution image, an image processing unit generates the distribution image including a region in which the notification message is superimposed. When the camera image is set not to be included in the distribution image, the image processing unit generates the distribution image not including the region in which the notification message is superimposed.