Virtual Smoke Synchronization via Distance Sensing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current virtual reality and augmented reality technologies lack the ability to seamlessly implement virtual smoke in real-time with electronic devices, failing to provide a realistic smoking experience in virtual environments.
Innovation Solution
A method that predicts the virtual smoke implementation timepoint by monitoring the distance between an electronic device and a user, using sensors to detect inhalation and exhalation intervals, and transmits a control signal to a VR device to synchronize virtual smoke with the user's actions, ensuring a realistic smoking experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If virtual smoke is implemented in VR environments using conventional methods, then the visual effect can be displayed, but the timing does not synchronize with the user's actual smoking actions, creating a sense of difference
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary detection of the user's inhalation action through distance sensing before the exhalation occurs. By detecting when the user brings the device to their mouth and inhales, the system predicts the upcoming exhalation timing and preps the virtual smoke generation in advance, ensuring synchronization without requiring complex real-time reaction systems
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors the distance between the device and user's mouth using sensors, creating a feedback loop that tracks the user's smoking actions. This feedback mechanism allows the system to detect inhalation patterns, predict exhalation timing, and adjust virtual smoke generation accordingly, achieving reliable synchronization through continuous observation and adjustment
2Reliability
If the system monitors distance continuously to predict exhalation timing, then the synchronization improves, but the energy consumption and processing load increase
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of continuous monitoring, the system uses periodic distance detection at specific intervals during the smoking action sequence. The sensor activates at key moments (when inhalation is detected, when exhalation is predicted) rather than running continuously, reducing energy consumption while maintaining accurate timing prediction through strategically timed measurements
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs distance monitoring and pattern recognition in advance during the inhalation phase, storing this data for prediction purposes. By doing the detection work preliminarily during inhalation rather than waiting until exhalation occurs, the system reduces real-time processing load and energy consumption during the critical exhalation timing moment
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables the implementation of virtual smoke in VR environments that aligns with the user's smoking actions, providing a realistic and immersive experience without a sense of difference between real and virtual smoking.
Implementation Method 1
a distance detection sensor configured to monitor a distance between one side of the electronic device and an object
Data Source
AI summary
The following embodiments relate to a method of controlling an electronic device to implement virtual smoke in a virtual display device. An operating method of an electronic device according to an embodiment includes sensing a brainwave based on an input signal received from the electronic device; predicting a virtual smoke implementation timepoint by analyzing a result of the sensing; and displaying a virtual image in which cigarette smoke is generated, based on the virtual smoke implementation timepoint.