Real-Time Virtual Backgrounds for Context-Aware Video Sessions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing video session services lack the ability to provide real-time environment status information, such as geographic location, time, and weather, to participants, limiting the immersive and interactive experience.
Innovation Solution
The solution involves obtaining real-time environment status information, determining a virtual visual representation, forming a real-time virtual background with a layout template, and combining it with a user's real-time human image to create a mixed image that reflects the user's current environment, which is then presented in the video session interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If real-time virtual background is provided with environment status information, then the immersive and interactive experience is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the user's real-time environment status information (geographic location, time, weather) and displays it as a virtual background image. This copying approach allows participants to perceive environmental information without physically traveling to the location, thus enhancing immersion while avoiding the complexity of physical environment replication.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a virtual background image as an intermediary element between the user and the remote participant. This intermediary displays environment status information visually, enabling communication of environmental context without requiring direct physical presence or complex real-time environmental transmission systems.
2Loss of information
If real-time environment status information is provided, then mutual perception among users is improved, but the loss of information about actual physical environment increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system copies key environment status information (geographic location, time, weather) into the virtual background image, ensuring accurate representation of the user's physical environment. This copying mechanism prevents information loss by systematically capturing and displaying essential environmental parameters without attempting to replicate the entire physical environment.
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AI summary
The present disclosure proposes methods, apparatuses, computer program products and non-transitory computer-readable medium for providing real-time virtual background in a video session. Real-time environment status information of a target user may be obtained, the real-time environment status information at least comprising geographic location information of the target user. A virtual visual representation corresponding to the real-time environment status information may be determined. A real-time virtual background may be formed through adding the virtual visual representation into a predetermined layout template. A mixed image corresponding to the target user may be formed through combining the real-time virtual background and a real-time human image of the target user. The mixed image may be presented in a user display region corresponding to the target user in a user interface of the video session.