Virtual Audience Avatars for Live Event Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Remote viewing of live events without a live audience can degrade the viewing experience, particularly for entertainment and sports programs, due to the lack of social interaction and feedback.
Innovation Solution
A system that captures remote viewers' faces and voices to generate animated avatars, creating a virtual audience that provides real-time feedback like laughter and applause, while filtering out spoken words to maintain privacy and enhance the viewing experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a live audience is present at the event, then the viewing experience quality and social interaction are improved, but the risk of virus transmission and health safety deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates virtual copies (avatars) of remote viewers that simulate the presence and reactions of a live audience. These avatars are generated from viewer images and animated to display reactions such as laughter and applause, providing the social interaction and atmosphere of a live audience without physical presence, thereby eliminating virus transmission risk while maintaining viewing experience quality.
2Reliability
If remote viewers' full audio is transmitted, then the authenticity of audience feedback is improved, but the privacy protection deteriorates due to transmission of spoken words
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and separates different components of viewer audio feedback. It identifies and removes spoken words from the audio stream while retaining and transmitting non-verbal reactions such as laughter, applause, and other audience responses. This extraction process preserves the authenticity of audience feedback while protecting viewer privacy by eliminating personally identifiable speech content.
3Reliability
If high-quality video streams from multiple viewers are transmitted, then the realism of the virtual audience is improved, but the network bandwidth consumption deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of transmitting full-quality video streams from multiple viewers, the system creates simplified avatar representations that capture essential visual characteristics and reactions. These avatars use reduced-resolution images and simplified animation to convey audience presence and reactions, significantly reducing network bandwidth requirements while maintaining the perceived realism of a live audience through strategic use of visual cues and synchronized reactions.
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AI summary
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system acquires a video image and voice data of a remote viewer of a live event content, and generating animation parameters relating to the video image. An avatar of the viewer is constructed based on the animation parameters; the avatar includes an animated version of the video image. The animated version and voice data are encoded to obtain a compressed animation data stream and a compressed audio stream, which are transmitted at a low bit rate to a remote system providing the content. The remote system aggregates compressed animation data streams and compressed audio streams to obtain a virtual audience for the event; the virtual audience includes avatars of the remote viewers and sound produced by the remote viewers. Other embodiments are disclosed.