Robot Interface Projection for Multimodal Real-World Assistance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current virtual assistants are limited in their ability to provide real-world assistance, lacking spatial navigation, physical manipulation, and interaction beyond voice input and output, and are inadequate in media presentation environments such as video gaming.
Innovation Solution
A robot utility and interface device (RUID) that identifies user position and environment surfaces for interactive interface projection, captures user interactions, and provides real-world assistance through gestures, game controller delivery, and synchronized virtual reality movements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If virtual assistants are used to provide assistance, then users can access information and digital content, but the assistants cannot perform real-world tasks or interact beyond voice commands
Solution Approach 1:
The robot system integrates multiple interaction modalities including voice recognition, gesture recognition, visual display, and physical manipulation capabilities into a single universal platform. The robot can function as both a virtual assistant for digital tasks and a physical assistant for real-world tasks, eliminating the need for separate voice-only assistants and gesture-controlled devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines previously separate functions into one integrated robot system: voice processing, gesture recognition, visual interface projection, and physical manipulation are merged into a single coordinated system. This allows the robot to seamlessly transition between listening to voice commands, recognizing gestures, displaying information visually, and physically interacting with objects.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a robot provides interactive interfaces with multiple modalities, then real-world assistance and user interaction improve, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The robot system integrates multiple interaction modalities including voice recognition, gesture recognition, visual display, and physical manipulation capabilities into a single universal platform. The robot can function as both a virtual assistant for digital tasks and a physical assistant for real-world tasks, eliminating the need for separate voice-only assistants and gesture-controlled devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines previously separate functions into one integrated robot system: voice processing, gesture recognition, visual interface projection, and physical manipulation are merged into a single coordinated system. This allows the robot to seamlessly transition between listening to voice commands, recognizing gestures, displaying information visually, and physically interacting with objects.
3Ease of operation
If virtual assistants provide only voice-based interaction, then the system remains simple, but the ability to provide real-world assistance and multi-modal interaction is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The robot system integrates multiple interaction modalities including voice recognition, gesture recognition, visual display, and physical manipulation capabilities into a single universal platform. The robot can function as both a virtual assistant for digital tasks and a physical assistant for real-world tasks, eliminating the need for separate voice-only assistants and gesture-controlled devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines previously separate functions into one integrated robot system: voice processing, gesture recognition, visual interface projection, and physical manipulation are merged into a single coordinated system. This allows the robot to seamlessly transition between listening to voice commands, recognizing gestures, displaying information visually, and physically interacting with objects.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods and systems are provided for providing real world assistance by a robot utility and interface device (RUID) are provided. A method provides for identifying a position of a user in a physical environment and a surface within the physical environment for projecting an interactive interface. The method also provides for moving to a location within the physical environment based on the position of the user and the surface for projecting the interactive interface. Moreover, the method provides for capturing a plurality of images of the interactive interface while the interactive interface is being interacted with by the use and for determining a selection of an input option made by the user.