Virtual Space Avatar Action Modes for Realistic User Interaction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems struggle to maintain a realistic impression from real space when multiple avatars are present in virtual environments, requiring strict management that is not practical.

Innovation Solution

An information processing device that switches between action modes for avatars, reflecting user operations in the first mode and predetermined actions in the second mode, ensuring avatars mimic real actions or follow specific behaviors based on user interactions and content progression.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If strict management is implemented to control avatar actions in virtual space, then the realism of impressions from real space is improved, but the system complexity and ease of operation deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverealism of impressionsVSAvoidmanagement complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The avatar automatically performs actions based on operations received from the user's own device, without requiring external management or coordination. The avatar serves itself by directly reflecting the user's operations, eliminating the need for complex management systems while maintaining realistic impressions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates a copy of the user's operations and applies them to the avatar. Instead of managing complex interactions between multiple users and avatars, the system simply copies the operational data from the user's device and reflects it in the avatar's actions, simplifying the overall system while preserving realism.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Reliability

If strict management is implemented to control avatar actions in virtual space, then the realism of impressions from real space is improved, but the ease of operation deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverealism of impressionsVSAvoidoperational simplicity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The avatar automatically performs actions based on operations received from the user's own device, without requiring external management or coordination. The avatar serves itself by directly reflecting the user's operations, eliminating the need for complex management systems while maintaining realistic impressions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates a copy of the user's operations and applies them to the avatar. Instead of managing complex interactions between multiple users and avatars, the system simply copies the operational data from the user's device and reflects it in the avatar's actions, simplifying the overall system while preserving realism.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Ease of operation

If multiple users freely operate their avatars in virtual space, then the ease of operation is improved, but the realism of impressions from real space deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveavatar operation freedomVSAvoidrealism of impressions
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

Each user's avatar operates independently based on that user's own operations, without requiring coordination with other users. This self-service approach maintains operational freedom while ensuring that each avatar's actions remain consistent with its owner's intentions, preserving realistic impressions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates a copy of each user's operations and applies them to their respective avatars. This copying mechanism ensures that each avatar accurately reflects its owner's actions without requiring complex inter-user management, maintaining both freedom of operation and realism.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS12373031B2Information processing device, display device, display system, and information processing method
Publication Date: 2025.07.29 CANON KK
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AI summary

An information processing device controls a display that displays an image representing a virtual space in accordance with a content and that includes a second avatar associated with a second user. The information processing device switches an action mode between a first mode in which operations performed by the first user are reflected in the first avatar and also operations performed by the second user with respect to the second avatar are reflected in actions of the second avatar, and a second mode in which the operations performed by the first user are reflected in the first avatar and also a particular action is reflected in actions of the second avatar.