Virtual-Space Communication for Real-Time Expert Advice
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing communication methods between clients and experts are inefficient, particularly in situations requiring real-time exchange of images, due to the complexity of managing large volumes of data, which hinders effective advice and expertise provision in various settings such as sales, medical consultations, and military operations.
Innovation Solution
A real-time communication method utilizing image and sound sensors to capture and transmit data between client and advisor spaces, enabling interactive image and sound display with minimal distortion, allowing for direct interaction and advice provision without the need for constant physical presence of experts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If real-time image and sound transmission is implemented between client and expert, then the quality of advice and expertise exchange is improved, but the complexity of managing large volumes of data increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates virtual copies of the expert and client in a shared virtual space, allowing interaction through image and sound transmission. This copying approach enables real-time consultation while managing data complexity through standardized virtual representation formats.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a virtual space as an intermediary environment that mediates between the expert and client. This virtual mediator handles the complex data transmission and processing, simplifying the interaction model while maintaining real-time communication quality.
2Reliability
If experts are made physically present with clients, then the quality of interaction is improved, but the time and resource costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of physical presence, the patent uses virtual copies (images and sounds) of experts to interact with clients in real-time. This eliminates travel time and physical constraints while maintaining interaction quality through immersive virtual presence.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical system of physical presence with an optical and acoustic system (image and sound transmission). This substitution eliminates the time losses associated with physical travel and presence while maintaining the essential interaction quality.
3Device complexity
If traditional communication methods are used without image exchange, then the system complexity is reduced, but the effectiveness of real-time advice provision is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the communication system into distinct functional components: image capture, sound capture, virtual space rendering, and interaction handling. This segmentation manages complexity through modular design while enabling rich real-time advice provision through coordinated operation of these segments.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a virtual spatial dimension to traditional communication, transforming 1D audio communication into a multi-dimensional experience with visual images, spatial positioning, and interactive elements. This dimensional enhancement boosts advice effectiveness while complexity is managed through standardized virtual environment protocols.
Data Source
AI summary
A real-time communication method between at least two persons, one being a client located in a client space and at least one other person referred to as advisor located in an advisor space, the method making available to each advisor, video images and sound of the client requesting advice, instructions and indications regarding design, production, use, utilization, repair, maintenance, consultation, localization, destruction, disposal, localization and elimination and guidance for one or more products located in or moving through a real physical space referred to as product space, and making available to the client video images and sound of the advisor interacting with the images of the client space and/or the product space. Also disclosed is a video camera comprising a three-dimensional filming portion that films three-dimensional images and comprise at least one of artificial intelligence and virtual three-dimensional creation software for creating the virtual three-dimensional images.