Virtual Image Server Status Display Method

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current communication methods, such as instant messaging and social networking, inadequately convey user mood and status, requiring more sophisticated means to enhance interactivity and self-expression.

Innovation Solution

A real-time user status displaying method that utilizes a virtual image server and terminal to obtain and parse user information from various sources, matching it with suitable virtual images based on extracted status information, allowing dynamic and interactive self-expression.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional text and image methods are used to display user status, then the implementation is simple, but the expression capability is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveexpression capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a virtual image as an intermediary element that mediates between the user's actual status and the display interface. The virtual image server acts as a mediator that receives user status information, processes it, and returns appropriate virtual images that represent the user's mood and state, thereby enhancing expression capability without requiring direct complex interactions

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates virtual copies of user status through virtual images. Instead of directly displaying text or simple icons, the system generates copy representations (virtual images) that embody and convey the user's emotional state and status, providing richer expression while maintaining system manageability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Ease of operation

If manual replacement of images or modification of texts is required to adjust user status, then the system structure is simple, but the interactivity is poor

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser convenienceVSAvoidtime consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables self-service by automatically matching and updating virtual images based on user status information. The virtual image server autonomously processes status updates and selects appropriate virtual images without requiring manual user intervention, making the system both easy to operate and time-efficient

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where the virtual image server continuously monitors user status information and automatically adjusts the displayed virtual image accordingly. This closed-loop feedback ensures the display remains synchronized with the user's actual state without requiring manual updates

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Adaptability or versatility

If diverse communication modes are provided to enhance interactivity, then more communication opportunities are created, but the communication effect is poorer than face-to-face communication

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication capabilityVSAvoidmood and status information
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent utilizes visual changes in virtual images (analogous to color changes principle) to convey different emotional states and moods. The virtual images can change their appearance, expression, or attributes to represent different emotional states, thereby transmitting mood information that text-based communication cannot effectively convey

Inventive Principle:
Principle #32Color changes

Data Source

PatentEP2793432B1Method for displaying user state, display terminal and server
Publication Date: 2018.09.05 HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a user status displaying method, a virtual image displaying terminal, and a virtual image server. The method includes: obtaining user original information from an information source; parsing the user original information, and obtaining user status information; obtaining a user virtual image matching the user status information from a virtual image database according to the user status information; and notifying a virtual image displaying terminal so that the virtual image displaying terminal displays the user virtual image. With the user status displaying method according to the embodiments of the present invention, the virtual image reflects the mood and status of the real user to some extent, and provides a new means of self-expression for the user. In addition, in the tense modern life, friends can contact each other without using real-time phones or short messages, thereby saving communication time.