Image Display Control Using Tactile Cues for User Immersion

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing video display systems fail to maintain user immersion and presence unless the user consciously moves, leading to a decrease in sense of immersion and presence.

Innovation Solution

An image display system that includes sensors to detect user motion, a tactile stimulation device to provide stimuli, and display devices to display images based on user behavior, ensuring images are displayed at moments of user awareness through tactile feedback.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the system waits for user motion to trigger video changes, then the system maintains simplicity in triggering conditions, but the sense of immersion and presence decreases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesimplicity of triggering conditionsVSAvoidsense of immersion and presence

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by presenting tactile stimuli to the user before detecting motion. This proactive approach ensures that the user's attention is captured and motion is likely to occur, allowing the system to trigger video changes more reliably without requiring the user to consciously move, thus maintaining both simplicity and immersion

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses tactile feedback devices to provide sensory input to the user, creating a closed-loop interaction. This feedback mechanism enhances the user's awareness and engagement with the system, improving the sense of presence while maintaining simple motion-based triggering conditions

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Device complexity

If the system requires conscious user movement to change video, then the triggering mechanism remains simple, but the opportunity to enhance immersion is lost

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecomplexity of triggering mechanismVSAvoidopportunity to enhance immersion

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies tactile stimuli before motion detection to proactively induce user response. This preliminary action increases the likelihood of capturing meaningful user motion without requiring complex triggering mechanisms, thereby maintaining simplicity while enhancing immersion opportunities

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The tactile feedback device serves as an intermediary between the system and the user, facilitating interaction without requiring complex direct control mechanisms. This intermediary enables the system to enhance immersion through sensory engagement while keeping the triggering mechanism relatively simple

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS20260044215A1Image display method, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program, and image display system

Publication Date: 2026.02.12 SEIKO EPSON CORP

AI summary

An image display system includes a sensor that detects a motion of a user, displays that display an image in a video space, and a processor that determines, based on output of the sensor, whether a first motion of the user after a stimulus to the tactile sense of the user is presented satisfies a first condition. The processor displays a first image in a first region of the video space with the displays when it is determined that the first motion satisfies the first condition.