TWI697832B - Multi-screen display system and information prompting method for the same - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention discloses a multi-screen display system and an information prompting method for the same. The information prompting method includes: determining whether an important event occurs; according to a detecting result provided by an eye-tracking unit of the multi-screen display system, determining which of a plurality of display units of the multi-screen display system is currently watched by a user as a current display unit; and displaying a hint information on the current display unit when the important event occurs.

Description

Multi-screen display system and its message prompt method

The invention relates to a message prompt method and computer program product of a multi-screen display system.

With the vigorous development of the e-sports industry, manufacturers have taken advantage of this boom to launch their own e-sports peripheral electronic products. The gaming cockpit is a cockpit operating device with a multi-screen display system that allows users to enjoy an immersive gaming experience. However, because the gaming cockpit is equipped with multiple screens, it is difficult for users to notice the details or events in all the screens displayed at the same time. For example, when playing a battle game, the user may focus on the battle on one screen while ignoring important events on the other screen, which may result in the death of the character operated by the user, which will make the user's gaming experience poor . In view of this, it is necessary to propose a solution to improve the above problems and enhance the user's play experience.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a multi-screen display system and its message prompting method to improve the user experience.

The embodiment of the present invention discloses a multi-screen display system including a plurality of display units, a line-of-sight tracking unit, a storage unit, and a processing unit. The storage unit stores a computer program product. The processing unit is coupled to the display units, the line-of-sight tracking unit, and the storage unit. When the computer program product is executed by the processing unit, the processing unit is caused to execute: determine whether an important event has occurred; according to a detection result of the gaze tracking unit, determine that a current display unit currently looking at by a user is one of the display units What; and when an important event occurs, a prompt message is displayed on the current display unit.

Another embodiment of the present invention discloses a message prompt method applied to a multi-screen display system. The message prompting method includes: judging whether an important event has occurred; according to a detection result of a line-of-sight tracking unit of the multi-screen display system, judging that a current display unit that a user is currently looking at is among the multiple display units of the multi-screen display system And when an important event occurs, a prompt message is displayed on the current display unit.

In order to have a better understanding of the above-mentioned and other aspects of the present invention, the following specific examples are given in conjunction with the accompanying drawings to describe in detail as follows:

Please refer to Figure 1. Figure 1 shows a schematic diagram of a multi-screen display system. The multi-screen system 10 includes a plurality of display units 102a-102c, a line-of-sight tracking unit 104, a storage unit 106, and a processing unit 108.

The display units 102a to 102c are, for example, liquid crystal displays (LCD), light emitting diode displays (LED display), and the like. The display units 102a to 102c may be arranged in a cabin 20 in the manner shown in FIG. 2, for example.

The line-of-sight tracking unit 104 is used to track the line of sight of the user to determine which of the display units 102a to 102c the user is currently looking at. The sight tracking unit 104 may be, for example, a device that uses infrared rays and a camera to track the user's eyeballs, and the invention is not limited thereto.

The storage unit 106 is used to store one or more application programs and a computer program product according to the present invention. The application programs may include, for example, the main game program that the user is currently playing and the peripheral programs required to run the game.

The processing unit 108 is coupled to the display units 102 a to 102 c, the line-of-sight tracking unit 104 and the storage unit 106. The processing unit 108 is used to run the application programs stored in the storage device 106 and the computer program product according to the present invention. The computer program product according to the present invention includes one or more computer-readable instructions. When the computer program product is executed by the processing unit 108, the processing unit 108 will cause the processing unit 108 to execute the message prompting method described later in this article. It should be noted that, in this embodiment, the processing unit 108 is a collection of devices with processing and computing capabilities. For example, the processing unit 108 may include a general-purpose processor (such as a central processing unit (CPU)), a dedicated processing chip (such as a display interface card), or a combination thereof.

Please refer to FIG. 3, which illustrates a message prompting method according to an embodiment of the present invention. Please also refer to the schematic diagram of important events shown in Figure 4 for better understanding. This message prompt method is used in a multi-screen display system (such as the multi-screen display system 10). This message prompting method can be implemented by computer-readable instructions, stored in the storage unit 106, and executed by the processing unit 108. The situation where this message prompting method is executed is for example: a multi-screen display system is currently running an application (such as a battle game), and the user is playing with this application, where the application has more than two screens at runtime The display unit to display (for example, the screen covers the display units 102a to 102c).

Step S31, it is judged whether an important event has occurred. The so-called "important events" refer to events that occur during the running of applications (such as games), and these events are considered important to users. For example, in a battle game, the enemy character casts skills that are not conducive to the user's camp, the enemy character or friendly character's health is below a certain percentage, the enemy character appears in a certain area, and so on. Important events can be preset in the computer program product, or can be defined by the user through the user operation interface provided by the computer program product and stored in the computer program product or stored in the storage unit 106 in the form of a configuration file of the computer program product Inside. In one embodiment, the application programming interface (API) provided by the application provider can be used to set important events in the computer program product, and when the computer program product is running, the processing unit 108 can be based on the application program The information and/or packets provided at runtime determine whether important events have occurred. In another embodiment, the processing unit 108 can determine whether an important event has occurred based on the information displayed on the screens of the display units 102a to 102c when the application is running, for example, whether there is an enemy character or a friendly character in the screen. The value bar is below a length threshold and/or whether there is a health bar with a specific color (for example, red) in a specific area of the screen. When the processing unit 108 determines that an important event has not occurred, it continues to execute step S31; when the processing unit 108 determines that an important event has occurred, it executes step S33. In one embodiment, the processing unit 108 further determines which display unit is an event display unit that has an important event. As shown in Fig. 4, it is assumed that the processing unit 108 determines that an important event 41 has occurred in the screen displayed by the display unit 102c.

In one embodiment, the computer program product can set different definitions of important events for different applications. When the computer program product is executed, the processing unit 108 first selects the definition of the corresponding important event (for example, loads the corresponding configuration file) according to the currently running application.

Step S33, according to a detection result provided by the gaze tracking unit 104, determine a current display unit that the user is currently looking at. As shown in FIG. 4, it is assumed that the current display unit that the user is currently looking at is the display unit 102b.

Step S35, displaying a prompt message on the current display unit. As shown in FIG. 4, the processing unit 108 displays a prompt message 45 on the display unit 102b (ie, the current display unit 43) to remind the user that an important event has occurred. In one embodiment, before step S35, the processing unit 108 first determines whether the event display unit is the same as the current display unit. If they are the same, do not display the prompt and return to step S31, if they are different, then perform step S35. In another embodiment, the processing unit 108 determines the display style and/or position of the prompt message according to the event display unit. For example, assuming that the current display unit is the display unit 102b and the event display unit is the display unit 102c, the processing unit 108 may display a flashing arrow pointing to the right on the edge of the screen on the side of the display unit 102b near the display unit 102c.

In another embodiment, as shown in Figure 5, when the computer program product is executed, the processing unit 108 can display a prompt interface 55 on the current display unit (for example, the display unit 102b), and when an important event occurs, The processing unit 108 displays the prompt message on the prompt interface according to the event display unit of the important event. For example, the prompt interface may include three blocks, corresponding to the display units 102a to 102c, respectively. When an important event occurs on the display unit 102c, the block corresponding to the display unit 102c starts to flash as a prompt message.

In yet another embodiment, the important event defined in the computer program product has an event parameter, where the event parameter may be the importance of the important event or the type of the important event. In step S35, the processing unit 108 may determine a type of the prompt message according to the event parameters of the important event that occurred. For example, the importance of important events can be divided into three levels from high to low, and the corresponding event parameters are 1~3. The processing unit 108 can indicate the event parameters 1~3 in red, yellow and green respectively. Message to display.

With the multi-screen display system and the message prompt method provided by the present invention, the user can focus on the screen of one of the display units and display a prompt message to remind the user that an important event has occurred. Especially when the screen where an important event occurs is located on the display unit that is not currently being watched by the user, the prompt message can allow the user to intuitively turn his attention to the display unit where the important event has occurred, so as to prevent the important event from being ignored and causing the user experience Bad. In other words, the present invention can effectively improve the user experience of the multi-screen display system.

In summary, although the present invention has been disclosed in the above embodiments, it is not intended to limit the present invention. Those with ordinary knowledge in the technical field of the present invention can make various changes and modifications without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of protection of the present invention shall be subject to those defined by the attached patent scope.

10: Multi-screen display system 102a~102c: display unit 104: Sight tracking unit 106: storage unit 108: processing unit S31~S35: steps

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a multi-screen display system according to an embodiment of the invention.

Figure 2 shows a schematic diagram of the configuration of the display unit.

Figure 3 shows a flowchart of a message prompting method according to an embodiment of the invention.

Figure 4 is a schematic diagram showing an example of the prompt message.

Figure 5 is a schematic diagram showing another example of displaying the prompt message.

S31~S35: steps

Claims (12)

A multi-screen display system, including: Multiple display units; A line of sight tracking unit; A storage unit storing a computer program product; and A processing unit coupled to the display units, the line-of-sight tracking unit and the storage unit, When the computer program product is executed by the processing unit, the processing unit is caused to execute: Determine whether an important event has occurred; According to a detection result of the gaze tracking unit, determine which of the display units a current display unit is currently looking at by a user; and When the important event occurs, a prompt message is displayed on the current display unit. For example, in the multi-screen display system described in claim 1, wherein the important event includes an event parameter, the processing unit determines a type of the prompt message according to the event parameter when displaying the prompt message. For example, in the multi-screen display system described in item 1 of the scope of patent application, before displaying a prompt message on the current display unit, the processing unit determines which of the display units is an event display unit where the important event occurs, And when the event display unit is the same as the current display unit, the processing unit does not display the prompt message. For example, the multi-screen display system described in item 1 of the scope of patent application, wherein the computer program product includes a plurality of important event definitions, and the processing unit selects the important event definitions according to an application currently running in the multi-screen display system one of them. For example, in the multi-screen display system described in item 1 of the scope of patent application, the processing unit determines whether the important event has occurred according to information or packets provided by an application currently running in the multi-screen display system. For example, in the multi-screen display system described in item 1 of the scope of patent application, the processing unit determines whether the important event has occurred based on the screen information displayed by the display units. A message prompting method is used in a multi-screen display system. The message display method includes: A processing unit of the multi-screen display system determines whether an important event has occurred; The processing unit determines which of the plurality of display units of the multi-screen display system is a current display unit currently looking at by a user according to a detection result of a line-of-sight tracking unit of the multi-screen display system; and When the important event occurs, the processing unit displays a prompt message on the current display unit. For example, in the message prompt method described in item 7 of the patent application, the important event includes an event parameter, and the processing unit determines a type of the prompt message according to the event parameter when displaying the prompt message. For example, in the message prompt method described in item 7 of the scope of patent application, before displaying a prompt message on the current display unit, the processing unit determines which of the display units is the event display unit where the important event occurred, and When the event display unit is the same as the current display unit, the processing unit does not display the prompt message. For example, in the message prompt method described in item 7 of the scope of patent application, the computer program product includes a plurality of important event definitions, and the processing unit selects one of the important event definitions according to an application currently running in the multi-screen display system one. For example, in the message prompt method described in item 7 of the scope of patent application, the processing unit determines whether the important event has occurred based on information or packets provided by an application currently running in the multi-screen display system. For example, in the message prompt method described in item 7 of the scope of patent application, the processing unit determines whether the important event has occurred according to the screen information displayed by the display units.

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