Virtual Golf Voice Guidance Personalization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing virtual golf simulation systems lack personalized voice guidance tailored to individual golfers' characteristics and situations, limiting engagement and convenience during gameplay.

Innovation Solution

A virtual golf simulation device and method incorporating sensors, image processors, databases, voice converters, and controllers to provide customized voice guidance based on golfer data, including personalized timbre, pitch, and volume, enhancing the gaming experience by offering situational voice cues.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If generic voice guidance is used in virtual golf simulation, then the system is simple to implement, but the golfer engagement and convenience are limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegolfer convenienceVSAvoidvoice guidance system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system changes voice parameters (timbre, pitch, volume) based on golfer characteristics and situational context. The voice converter dynamically adjusts these parameters to create personalized guidance, transforming a static voice system into a dynamic one that adapts to individual users and situations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The system automatically identifies golfers and selects appropriate voice guidance based on their characteristics and current situation without manual intervention. The controller autonomously retrieves golfer data, determines suitable voice parameters, and generates personalized guidance, reducing the need for user input while enhancing convenience.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Adaptability or versatility

If personalized voice guidance is implemented, then golfer interest and engagement increase, but the system complexity and data processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevoice guidance customizationVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

A voice converter component serves as an intermediary between the text guidance system and the audio output. This specialized component handles the complex task of text-to-voice conversion with personalized parameters, isolating the complexity from the main system architecture and allowing seamless integration.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system pre-stores various voice patterns and guidance scripts in the database before gameplay occurs. During actual play, the controller simply retrieves pre-prepared content and adjusts parameters as needed, avoiding real-time generation complexity while maintaining personalization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If situational voice guidance is provided, then the guidance relevance and effectiveness improve, but the data processing and controller complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevoice guidance relevanceVSAvoidcontroller processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system continuously monitors gameplay situations and golfer characteristics, using this feedback to dynamically select and adjust voice guidance. The controller processes real-time data about ball flight, golfer performance, and situational context to determine when and how to deliver personalized voice guidance, ensuring high relevance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS8585477B2Virtual golf simulation device and method for the same
Publication Date: 2013.11.19 GOLFZON CO LTD
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AI summary

A virtual golf simulation device and a method for the same are disclosed. The virtual golf simulation device includes a sensor for sensing flight of a ball hit by a golfer, an image processor for processing a simulated image of a virtual golf course and a simulated image of a flight trajectory of the ball sensed by the sensor, a database including a text storing part for storing text data corresponding to predetermined voice guides to determined text data among the text data stored in the text storing part to voice, and a controller for identifying a situation to trigger voice guidance to the golfer, extracting or extracting and combining the predetermined text data, and outputting the extracted or combined text data to the voice converter.