Virtual Space Image Gaze Feature Correlation System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems that output information on user responses to virtual reality or augmented reality space images struggle to help designers identify specific features that elicit particular responses, making it difficult to improve these images effectively.

Innovation Solution

An information processing system that includes an information terminal and an information processing apparatus, capable of communicating with the terminal. The system acquires display state data, identifies gazing time points and feature manifestation time points, and outputs these in association with each other, facilitating the improvement of virtual space images.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If a conventional system outputs information indicating user responses to virtual space images, then designers can grasp changes in user reactions, but designers cannot recognize what specific features in the virtual space image will elicit particular responses

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation completeness for design improvementVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the analysis by dividing user response information into two distinct components: gazing time points (when users look at the image) and feature manifestation time points (when specific features appear). This segmentation allows designers to correlate specific features with user responses, transforming incomplete feedback into actionable design insights without requiring system reconfiguration.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Manufacturing precision

If the system tracks user responses to virtual space images, then designers can improve the images by grasping response changes, but it becomes difficult to identify how to modify specific features

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedesign improvement precisionVSAvoidfeature-response correlation information
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism that provides designers with correlated information about gazing time points and feature manifestation time points. This feedback loop enables designers to identify which specific features elicit user responses and make precise modifications based on actual user behavior data, thereby improving design precision while maintaining information completeness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Ease of operation

If the system outputs general user response information, then designers can understand user reactions, but designers lack specific guidance on feature modifications

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedesign modification easeVSAvoidfeature identification precision
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent adds a temporal dimension to the analysis by introducing time points associated with both user gazing and feature manifestation. This dimensional enhancement transforms static feature lists into dynamic, time-correlated data that shows when features appear relative to when users gaze, providing precise guidance for feature modifications while maintaining ease of operation through clear temporal relationships.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentUS20250110554A1Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method
Publication Date: 2025.04.03 GEOCREATES INC
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AI summary

The information processing apparatus includes a data acquisition part that acquires display state data for identifying the virtual space image viewed by the user, a gazing identification part that identifies a gazing time point at which the user gazes at least at a portion of the virtual space image for a predetermined time or longer, a feature identification part that identifies a feature manifestation time point that is a point in time at which a specific feature is included in the virtual space image displayed on the information terminal, and an output part that outputs the gazing time point and the feature manifestation time point in association with each other.