Multi-Perspective VR Guidance System for User Preference Alignment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Multi-perspective virtual and augmented reality systems lack efficient mechanisms to redirect users' attention away from objectionable content or guide them to more preferred perspectives, leading to potential mismatch between presented content and user preferences.

Innovation Solution

A system that utilizes user profile data to determine preferences and generates cues, such as visual, audio, or haptic signals, to guide users to perspectives that better match their preferences, ensuring that the most pertinent or prioritized content is consumed, including identifying a center-point perspective or alternative perspectives that correlate more strongly with user profiles.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Object-affected harmful factors

If multi-perspective content is presented without guidance mechanisms, then users have freedom to choose any perspective, but users may consume objectionable content or fail to access preferred content

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveexposure to objectionable contentVSAvoiduser control over perspective selection

Core Design Contradiction:

Object-affected harmful factorsVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces an intermediary guidance mechanism that analyzes user profiles and generates cues (visual, audio, or haptic signals) to subtly direct users toward preferred perspectives without forcibly restricting their freedom to explore other perspectives. This mediator balances user autonomy with content appropriateness.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring which perspectives users are viewing and comparing them against user profile preferences, then generating real-time cues to guide users toward more aligned perspectives. The system adapts its guidance based on user responses and perspective consumption patterns.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Productivity

If the system actively guides users to specific perspectives, then content consumption aligns better with user preferences, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent consumption efficiencyVSAvoidguidance system complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system changes parameters by analyzing user profile attributes (preferences, demographics, consumption history) and dynamically adjusting guidance cues based on these parameters. The complexity is managed by focusing on key preference parameters rather than attempting to control all possible perspective attributes.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The guidance system is designed to be universal by providing the same core functionality (perspective guidance) through multiple modalities (visual cues, audio cues, haptic feedback). This multi-functionality allows the system to achieve better content alignment without proportionally increasing complexity, as the same underlying logic serves multiple guidance purposes.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple concurrent perspectives are provided, then user choice and content variety increase, but the difficulty of detecting and measuring preferred content increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent varietyVSAvoidpreference matching accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the multi-perspective content environment by analyzing and categorizing different perspectives based on their characteristics (genre, tone, content type). This segmentation allows the system to efficiently match user profile preferences to specific perspective segments, reducing the complexity of measuring preference alignment across all available perspectives.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system replaces manual or simple mechanical perspective selection with an automated information processing system that uses user profile data and content analysis to determine preference matching. This substitution of mechanical user exploration with computational analysis significantly improves the accuracy of detecting and measuring preferred content among multiple concurrent perspectives.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS20250021157A1Systems and methods for guiding perspectives for multi-perspective content

Publication Date: 2025.01.16 ADEIA GUIDES INC

AI summary

A method of guiding perspectives in a multi-perspective content delivery system. The method includes receiving profile data associated with an end-user multi-perspective content consumption device and identifying a preference for content based upon the profile data. Multi-perspective content is transmitted to a device associated with the first profile data, the multi-perspective content representing a first perspective of a plurality of time-coincident VR perspectives. The VR system determines whether the first perspective correlates with the preference for content by at least a predetermined amount. In response to determining that the first perspective does not correlate with the preference for content by at least the predetermined amount, determining a second perspective of the plurality of perspectives that correlates to a greater degree with the preference for content than the first perspective, and transmitting from the end-user device a cue for recommending a change in perspective to the second perspective.