Online Education Composite Image Generation for Group Presence
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional education assist apparatuses fail to provide students with the feel of group education during remote learning, as they display only the instructor's video screen, lacking the sense of being part of a group.
Innovation Solution
An education support apparatus and method that generates a composite image on student terminals, combining the instructor and other students' images to create the illusion of them being in the same space, enhancing the perception of group education.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If only the instructor video screen is displayed on student terminals, then the instructor's content is clearly visible, but students cannot realize the feel of being receiving group education
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple individual images (instructor and other students) into a single composite image that is displayed on student terminals. This merging of separate video feeds creates a unified visual representation that conveys the group education atmosphere while maintaining clear visibility of the instructor's content.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a composite copy that represents the physical classroom environment by synthesizing images from multiple sources. This composite image serves as a virtual representation of the group space, allowing students to perceive their peers and the instructor in a unified visual field without requiring them to be physically present together.
2Loss of information
If multiple student images are displayed on each terminal, then the feel of group education is enhanced, but the terminal display complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of displaying multiple separate student images that would clutter the terminal interface, the patent merges all student and instructor images into a single composite image. This approach preserves the group education atmosphere while simplifying terminal display management, as students only need to view one integrated image rather than coordinating multiple separate feeds.
3Loss of information
If individual student images are transmitted to all terminals, then peer visibility is improved, but the network bandwidth consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges individual student images into a single composite image that is then transmitted to all terminals. This eliminates the need to send multiple separate image streams to each student, significantly reducing network bandwidth consumption while still providing all students with visibility of their peers through the composite representation.
Solution Approach 2:
The composite image serves multiple functions simultaneously: it displays the instructor, shows peer presence, creates group education atmosphere, and reduces data transmission requirements. This multi-functional approach allows a single image to replace what would otherwise require multiple separate image streams.
Data Source
AI summary
An education support apparatus, which is configured to support online education conducted by connecting, via a network, respective terminal apparatuses used by an instructor and a plurality of students who are present in spaces separate from each other, includes a communication interface configured to communicate via the network, and a controller configured to receive, via the communication interface, a plurality of individual images including an image of the instructor and an image of a second student different from a first student among the plurality of students, generate, using the received plurality of individual images, a composite image representing the second student as being present in the same space as the instructor, and control a terminal apparatus used by the first student to display the generated composite image.