Virtual Environment Abuse Reporting With Pre-Recorded Evidence
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems fail to effectively address abusive interactions in virtual environments, such as harassment and racism, by allowing users to report and provide evidence of such incidents, leading to a detrimental user experience and potential avoidance of virtual spaces.
Innovation Solution
A data processing apparatus with storage and recording capabilities that allows users to select and record abusive interactions, generating a recording from stored images for review and reporting, using conditions like time, avatar presence, and distance to efficiently capture and deter abusive behavior.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If users are allowed to report abusive interactions in virtual environments, then user safety is improved, but the complexity of the system increases due to needing storage and recording capabilities
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-records video and audio content in the virtual environment before abusive interactions occur. This preliminary recording action enables immediate evidence capture when abuse is detected, eliminating the need for complex real-time processing during incidents while maintaining user safety capabilities
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a moderator system as an intermediary between users and abusive content. Moderators review pre-recorded evidence and manage abusive interactions, reducing the complexity burden on the core system while maintaining reliable safety mechanisms through this intermediate layer
2Measurement precision
If the system records and stores video content for evidence, then measurement precision of abusive interactions is improved, but loss of time for processing and reviewing content increases
Solution Approach 1:
Video and audio content are pre-recorded and stored in the system before any abusive interaction occurs. This preliminary capture ensures high measurement precision of abusive behaviors while enabling rapid retrieval and review, significantly reducing the time loss associated with evidence collection during incidents
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual evidence collection and review processes with automated system-based recording, storage, and retrieval mechanisms. This substitution maintains high measurement precision through consistent automated capture while reducing time loss through efficient digital storage and quick access capabilities
3Manufacturing precision
If the system allows manual specification of recording portions, then manufacturing precision of recordings is improved, but ease of operation decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically performs the recording specification and evidence selection functions that would otherwise require manual user input. This self-service approach maintains high recording accuracy through automated capture parameters while significantly improving ease of operation, allowing users to report abuse with a single action rather than manually configuring recording settings
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AI summary
A data processing apparatus includes processing circuitry to generate images of a computer-generated environment for display to a first user, storage circuitry to temporarily store at least some of the images, where the storage circuitry is configured to temporarily store a respective image in dependence upon one or more storage conditions, receiving circuitry to receive user input data indicative of selection by a first user of a predetermined function for reporting abusive interaction by another user associated with the computer-generated environment, recording circuitry to generate a respective recording in response to the user input data, the respective recording comprising at least some of the images stored by the storage circuitry and output circuitry to output the respective recording.