Video Output Apparatus Synthesizing User Interaction Signals

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing video output systems fail to provide users with a sense of unity and engagement during events, as they do not effectively incorporate user interactions to enhance the viewing experience.

Innovation Solution

A video output method and apparatus that receive user operations to generate performance images and sounds, synthesizing them with live video data to create output video and audio, allowing users to interactively participate in the event by displaying and reproducing performance images and sounds based on their inputs.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional video output systems are used, then video data can be transmitted and displayed, but users cannot feel a sense of unity or engagement with the event

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser engagementVSAvoiduser interaction capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system receives user operations (claps, cheers, etc.) as input, processes them to generate performance images and sounds, and outputs these back to enhance the event atmosphere. This feedback loop creates engagement by making users feel their actions directly influence the event display, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables users to interact with the event through their own actions (clapping, cheering) without requiring complex external devices or instructions. Users naturally perform actions that are automatically captured and converted into performance content, making engagement intuitive and effortless.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Adaptability or versatility

If user operations are received and processed to generate performance images and sounds, then user engagement is enhanced, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser interaction capabilityVSAvoidsystem structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The video output apparatus performs multiple functions within a single integrated system: receiving user operations, generating performance images, generating performance sounds, synthesizing these elements, and outputting the enhanced video and audio. This multi-functionality enhances user interaction capability while avoiding the need for separate dedicated devices for each function.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system merges the processing of user operations, generation of performance content, and output of enhanced video/audio into a unified apparatus. By combining these functions in one system rather than distributing them across multiple separate devices, the overall system complexity is managed more effectively while maintaining full user interaction capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS11985380B2Video output method and video output apparatus
Publication Date: 2024.05.14 YAMAHA CORP
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AI summary

A video output method receives an operation from each of a plurality of users, generates a performance image and a performance sound based on the received operation, receives first video data, synthesizes the first video data and the performance image to generate output video data, and outputs the output video data and the performance sound.