Multi-Viewpoint Image Sharing With Avatar Feedback for Immersive Interaction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional online video sharing lacks the physical interplay between viewers and subjects, making it difficult for viewers to feel a sense of immersion and participation akin to being at the event.
Innovation Solution
An image sharing method and system that generates first image data from multiple viewpoints, sets a cyber space for viewing, distributes this data to multiple devices, and sends environment data based on viewer motion and avatar information to create a sense of interaction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional one-way online video sharing is used, then viewers can watch content remotely, but physical interplay between viewers and subjects is absent, reducing immersion and participation
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces feedback loops where viewers' avatar positions and motions are transmitted back to the server, which then generates environment data showing other avatars' positions and motions. This creates a continuous feedback cycle that enables physical interplay and enhances immersion without complicating the viewing operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces avatars as intermediaries that represent viewers in the cyber space. These avatars enable physical interplay between viewers and subjects by allowing viewers to move and interact within the virtual environment, thereby enhancing immersion while maintaining ease of operation through automated avatar control.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multi-viewpoint image data is distributed to allow viewers to see from different angles, then viewing flexibility improves, but interplay between viewers and subjects remains absent
Solution Approach 1:
The patent adds a social interaction dimension to the multi-viewpoint viewing experience. While multi-viewpoint image data provides spatial flexibility, the addition of avatars and environment data creates a new dimension of social interplay, allowing viewers to see and interact with each other's virtual representations alongside the multi-viewpoint content.
3Reliability
If avatar environment data is sent to each viewing apparatus to enable interplay, then immersion increases, but data transmission requirements and processing complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates simplified copies of the viewing environment as environment data that includes only essential information (other avatars' positions and motions). This copying approach enables immersion by providing relevant environmental context without transmitting complete scene data, thereby reducing data transmission requirements and processing complexity.
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AI summary
An image sharing method including generating image data of an image from a viewpoint at a position based on image data obtained from a plurality of image capturing apparatuses that capture images of the same subject simultaneously, setting a cyber space for viewing the image data from the viewing apparatuses, and distributing the image data to each of the plurality of viewing apparatuses. Information on an avatar, an initial viewing position in the cyber space, and the motion information of a viewer of each viewing apparatus is obtained and environment data pertaining to an avatar of another viewing apparatus based on a viewpoint in the cyber space obtained based on the initial viewing position and the motion information is sent to each viewing apparatus.