Terminal equipment, information processing device, information processing method, and program
Inventors
Serita, Kazutoshi • SENJU, Masatoshi
Assignees
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Publication Number
US-12321512-B2
Publication Date
2025-06-03
Expiration Date
Abstract
To provide a mechanism that allows a user to have a novel inhalation experience, terminal equipment is provided that includes a communication unit that transmits inhalation information including information showing a location where a user is inhaling using an inhalation device and receives virtual space information that defines a virtual space created on the basis of the inhalation information; and a control unit that outputs from an output unit the virtual space defined by the virtual space information received.
Core Innovation
The disclosed AR/virtual-space system uses a terminal device that receives virtual space information defining a virtual space corresponding to real space by placing virtual objects corresponding to real objects. The terminal device causes the virtual space defined by the received virtual space information to be output by an output unit. In the virtual space, a virtual object indicating that inhalation is prohibited is placed at a location corresponding to a prohibited inhalation location in the real space where inhalation using an inhalation device is not allowed.
The virtual space includes information warning the user not to inhale using the inhalation device if the user is inhaling at a location where inhalation using the inhalation device is not allowed. The virtual space incorporates regulatory information including prohibited and allowed inhalation locations and rules related to time, conditions, and device or base-material dependent rules. The system enforces the regulatory information by placing prohibition or allowed virtual objects and, optionally, by updating virtual topography to act as obstacles or merits.
The system further manages user interaction in the virtual space by limiting avatar executable actions at prohibited locations and by altering avatar appearance and assigning points, benefits, or points subtraction. The disclosure also supports multi-user avatar communication and congestion indicators for allowed inhalation locations, and describes adaptive regulatory-information updating based on inhalation history.
Claims Coverage
The document provides three independent claims: a terminal device claim, an information processing method claim, and a program claim. Across the independent claims, the inventive coverage is centered on mapping real space to a virtual space, placing a prohibition-indicating virtual object at prohibited inhalation locations, and outputting warning information to the user.
Virtual space corresponding to real space with placed virtual objects
A communication unit receives virtual space information defining a virtual space that corresponds to a real space by placing virtual objects corresponding to real objects; and a control unit causes the virtual space defined by the received virtual space information to be output by an output unit.
Prohibited inhalation virtual object at prohibited location and warning information
In the virtual space, a virtual object indicating that inhalation is prohibited is placed at a location corresponding to a prohibited inhalation location where inhalation using an inhalation device is not allowed in the real space; and the virtual space includes information warning the user not to inhale using the inhalation device if the user is inhaling at a location where inhalation using the inhalation device is not allowed.
Program for receiving and outputting the inhalation-regulation virtual space
A program embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium executes a process comprising receiving virtual space information defining a virtual space that corresponds to a real space by placing virtual objects corresponding to real objects; causing the virtual space to be output by an output unit; placing a virtual object indicating that inhalation is prohibited at a location corresponding to a prohibited inhalation location; and including information warning the user not to inhale using the inhalation device if the user is inhaling at a location where inhalation using the inhalation device is not allowed.
The independent claims collectively require generating and outputting a virtual space corresponding to real space using received virtual space information and placed virtual objects, placing a virtual object indicating inhalation prohibition at locations corresponding to prohibited inhalation locations, and providing warning information that instructs the user not to inhale using the inhalation device when the user is inhaling at those prohibited locations.
Stated Advantages
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Documented Applications
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