TWI880272B - Virtual-physical interaction system - Google Patents

Abstract

A virtual-physical interaction system is provided, which includes: a physical information carrier including physical interactive information applicable to a user-end application for providing an interactive result; a server for providing user progress according to the interactive result, wherein the user progress includes a first user progress and a second user progress; and a plurality of user terminals including: a first user terminal communicatively connected to the server for executing the user-end application and inputting the interactive result via the user-end application and receiving the first user progress from the server; and a second user terminal communicatively connected to the server for executing the user-end application and inputting the interactive result via the user-end application and receiving the second user progress from the server.

Description

Virtual and Real Interaction System

The present invention relates to a virtual-reality interactive system, and more particularly to a system architecture that provides interactive information to multiple user terminals based on the interactive results of a physical information carrier (real) via a server (virtual).

When multiple users interact with physical objects through physical information carriers (such as card games), they often have to rely on explanatory text on the physical information carrier (such as physical instructions, or physical objects such as cards with explanatory text) to make the physical interaction go smoothly.

However, reading a large amount of text is not conducive to the user's understanding of the current interaction status. The user may find it difficult to judge the progress of the interaction. The user must read a large amount of explanation text and fully understand the explanation text before the physical interaction can proceed smoothly.

In view of this, the present invention provides a virtual-reality interactive system, which includes a physical information carrier, a server, and multiple user terminals. Multiple users can execute user-end applications through their respective user terminals. The physical information carrier includes physical interactive information applicable to the user-end application (i.e., part of the information of the user-end application, such as a small amount of necessary explanatory text). Users can input the interactive results provided by the physical information carrier through the user-end application, and the server can provide the user progress to each user terminal according to the interactive results. Through the above technical framework, the present invention can record only a small amount of necessary explanatory text on the physical information carrier, and the user can quickly and efficiently understand the current interaction status through the information provided by the user-side application (such as user progress), and through the technical framework of virtual-real interaction, the interaction can proceed smoothly.

The virtual-reality interactive system provided by the present invention includes: a physical information carrier, including physical interactive information suitable for a user-side application, for providing interactive results; a server, for providing user progress according to the interactive results, wherein the user progress includes a first user progress and a second user progress; and a plurality of user terminals, including: a first user terminal, which is connected to the server for communication, for executing the user-side application, and inputting the interactive results through the user-side application, and receiving the first user progress from the server; and a second user terminal, which is connected to the server for communication, for executing the user-side application, and inputting the interactive results through the user-side application, and receiving the second user progress from the server.

In one embodiment of the present invention, in the above-mentioned virtual-reality interactive system, the interactive result includes a first interactive result and a second interactive result, and the first interactive result and the second interactive result are mutually exclusive.

In one embodiment of the present invention, in the above virtual-reality interactive system, a progress tree structure is included in the user-side application, and the progress tree structure includes a plurality of progress branches, and the plurality of progress branches correspond to a plurality of user progresses.

In one embodiment of the present invention, in the above-mentioned virtual-reality interactive system, the server determines the common progress based on the progress of multiple users and provides the common progress to multiple user terminals.

In one embodiment of the present invention, in the above-mentioned virtual-reality interactive system, the server determines reasonable progress and unreasonable progress based on the progress of multiple users, and provides the reasonable progress as a common progress to multiple user terminals.

In one embodiment of the present invention, in the above-mentioned virtual-reality interactive system, the server provides interactive rewards according to the number of completions of the progress branches.

In one embodiment of the present invention, in the above virtual-reality interactive system, the server provides interactive rewards corresponding to the progress branches according to the number of user terminals.

In one embodiment of the present invention, in the above-mentioned virtual-reality interactive system, the server determines whether to provide a progress branch based on the interactive reward.

In summary, the virtual-reality interaction system of the present invention can provide interaction results through a physical information carrier, and then provide the user progress to each user terminal according to the interaction results through a server, so that the present invention only needs to record a small amount of necessary explanatory text on the physical information carrier, and the user can quickly and efficiently understand the current interaction status through the information provided by the user-side application (such as information corresponding to the user progress), and the interaction can proceed smoothly through the technical framework of virtual-reality interaction.

In order to make the above and other purposes, features and advantages of the present invention more clearly understood, embodiments are specifically cited below and described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Please refer to FIG. 1 , which is a block diagram of a virtual-reality interaction system 1 provided in an embodiment of the present invention.

In this embodiment, the virtual-reality interactive system 1 of the present invention includes: a physical information carrier 2, a server 3, and a user terminal 4. The user terminal 4 includes a plurality of user terminals: a first user terminal 41, a second user terminal 42, and a third user terminal 43. The server 3 is communicatively connected to the first user terminal 41, the second user terminal 42, and the third user terminal 43.

In this embodiment, the virtual-reality interactive system 1 includes a user terminal 4, and the user terminal 4 may include multiple user terminals, for example, may include: a first user terminal 41, a second user terminal 42, and a third user terminal 43. The number of user terminals is only an example. In the virtual-reality interactive system 1, each user terminal corresponds to a user, for example: the first user corresponds to the first user terminal 41, the second user corresponds to the second user terminal 42, and the third user corresponds to the third user terminal 43. The present invention does not set a limit on the number of user terminals, and the number of users using the virtual-reality interactive system 1 can be more/less. The user terminal 4 can execute the user-side application USER-APP, and multiple users can conduct physical interactions (such as playing card games, etc.) through the physical information carrier 2. The physical information carrier 2 includes physical interaction information applicable to the user-side application USER-APP (that is, part of the information of the user-side application USER-APP, such as a small amount of necessary explanatory text), and at the end of each physical interaction, the user can obtain the interaction result through the physical information carrier 2 (that is, the physical information carrier 2 provides the interaction result). The users can execute the user-end application USER-APP through their respective user terminals, and input the interaction results provided by the physical information carrier 2 through the user-end application USER-APP. Then the server 3 can provide the user progress to each user terminal according to the interaction results. For example, the first user terminal 41 can receive the first user progress from the server 3, the second user terminal 42 can receive the second user progress from the server 3, and the third user terminal 43 can receive the third user progress from the server 3. In other words, the server 3 can manage the user progress of each user. In this way, the present invention only needs to record a small amount of necessary explanatory text on the physical information carrier 2, and the user can quickly and efficiently understand the current interaction status through the information provided by the user-side application USER-APP (for example: the user-side application USER-APP displays text/image/audio information corresponding to the user's progress), and the interaction can be carried out smoothly through the technical framework of virtual-real interaction.

In the present invention, the physical information carrier 2 refers to a physical object including physical interactive information applicable to the user-side application USER-APP, for providing interactive results. For example, the physical information carrier 2 may be a card carrying a text message, and the text message may be a small amount of/important/necessary/frequently appearing text that can show the characteristics of the card (the physical object), that is, the physical information carrier 2 may include the physical object characteristics of the physical information carrier 2, and the physical object characteristics are applicable to the user-side application USER-APP. The user can perform physical interaction through the physical information carrier 2, and after each physical interaction, the user can input the interaction result provided by the physical information carrier 2 through the user-end application USER-APP, and the server 3 and multiple user terminals cooperate to execute the interaction process to convert the physical interaction into virtual interaction. Although described above, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments listed, as long as it includes physical interaction information applicable to the user-end application USER-APP and is used to provide interaction results, it can be used as the physical information carrier 2 of the present invention.

In the present invention, the server 3 refers to a device that is connected to the user terminal 4 in communication and is used to provide user progress to the user terminal 4 according to the interaction result of the physical information carrier 2, wherein the user progress includes the first user progress, the second user progress, and the third user progress, etc. The server 3 can be connected to the user terminal 4 in communication to execute the interaction process to convert the physical interaction of the physical information carrier 2 into a virtual interaction. The server 3 can be accessed via a local area network (LAN), a wide area network (WAN), the Internet, etc., and can be a wireless network or a wired network, but is not limited to this in the present embodiment. For example, the server 3 can be a computer (computer, processing device) with computing and network connection functions, but the present invention is not limited thereto. Any device that can communicate with the user terminal 4 via the network and execute the interactive process of the present invention can be used as the server 3 of the present invention. The present invention is not limited to the embodiments listed.

In the present invention, the user terminal 4 refers to a collection of devices used to execute the user-side application USER-APP and can input interaction results through the user-side application USER-APP. In this embodiment, the user terminal 4 includes a first user terminal 41, a second user terminal 42, and a third user terminal 43, wherein the terms "first", "second", and "third" are only used to distinguish user terminals used by different users. For example, the user terminal 4 can preferably be a portable device, such as a smart phone, a laptop, etc., but the present invention is not limited thereto. As long as the user-side application USER-APP can be executed and the device that can input interaction results through the user-side application USER-APP can be used as the user terminal 4 of the present invention.

Please refer to FIG. 2 , which is a block diagram of a user terminal provided by an embodiment of the present invention.

Taking the first user terminal 41 as an example, in this embodiment, the first user terminal 41 includes an input module 411, a display module 412, and a communication module 413, wherein the communication module 413 is used for communication connection with the server 3. For example, the first user terminal 41 may be a smart phone, and the input module 411 and the display module 412 may be a touch display module of the smart phone (i.e., the input module 411 and the display module 412 are integrated into a touch display module). The user may input the interaction result of the physical information carrier 2 in the user-end application USER-APP by touch through the touch display screen (input module 411), and communicate with the server 3 through the communication module 413, receive the first user progress from the server 3, and then display the first user progress through the touch display screen (display module 412). The device architecture of the second user terminal 42 and the third user terminal 43 may be the same as that of the first user terminal 41, and will not be repeated here.

Please refer to FIG. 3 , which is an interactive flow chart of the virtual-reality interactive system 1 provided in an embodiment of the present invention.

The interactive process of the virtual-reality interactive system 1 includes the following steps. It should be noted that although the process sequence in the interactive process diagram is shown in FIG3 , the process sequence can be arbitrarily replaced as long as there is no contradiction between the steps, and the present invention is not limited thereto.

Step S1: The physical information carrier provides the interaction result, and then proceeds to step S3. In step S1, multiple users can perform physical interaction through the physical information carrier 2, and the physical information carrier 2 provides the interaction result.

Step S3: The user inputs the interaction result through the user-end application, and then proceeds to step S5. In step S3, multiple users can respectively execute the user-end application USER-APP with their respective user terminals and input the interaction result through the user-end application.

Furthermore, step S3 may include steps S31 and S32.

Step S31: The first user terminal inputs the interaction result through the user-end application. In step S31, the first user inputs the interaction result through the first user terminal 41 through the user-end application USER-APP.

Step S32: The second user terminal inputs the interaction result via the user-end application. In step S32, the second user inputs the interaction result via the second user terminal 42 via the user-end application USER-APP.

Step S5: The server provides the user progress according to the interaction result, and then enters step S7. The user progress includes the first user progress and the second user progress. In step S5, the server 3 can provide the user progress corresponding to the progress branch to the corresponding user terminal 4 according to the interaction result (for example, the win or loss of the physical interaction of the physical information carrier 2).

Furthermore, step S5 may include step S51.

Step S51: The server determines a common progress based on the progress of multiple users, and provides the common progress to multiple user terminals. For example, multiple users can interact with each other in virtual reality, and each user has his or her own user progress. The server 3 can record the user progress of each user, and determine a common progress based on the progress of multiple users, and provide the common progress to multiple user terminals that interact with each other in virtual reality.

Furthermore, step S51 may include step S511.

Step S511: The server determines reasonable progress and unreasonable progress based on the progress of multiple users, and provides the reasonable progress as a common progress to multiple user terminals. For example, multiple users can interact with each other in virtual reality, and each user has his or her own user progress. The server 3 can record the user progress of each user, and determine reasonable progress and unreasonable progress based on the progress of multiple users, and provide the reasonable progress as a common progress to multiple user terminals that interact with each other in virtual reality.

Step S7: The server provides an interaction reward.

Furthermore, step S7 may include steps S71, S72, and S73.

Step S71: The server provides an interactive reward according to the number of completions of the progress branch in the progress tree structure. For example, the server 3 can record the number of completions of the progress branch in the progress tree structure, and provide an interactive reward to all/individual user terminals that complete the progress branch according to the number of completions of the progress branch. The server 3 provides an interactive reward according to the number of completions of the progress branch, which can increase the number of virtual-real interactions as a whole. This step can achieve the technical effect of increasing user stickiness by increasing the number of virtual-real interactions.

Step S72: The server provides an interaction reward corresponding to the progress branch according to the number of user terminals. For example, the server 3 can record the number of user terminals (i.e., the number of users) that conduct virtual-real interaction together. When the progress branch is completed, the server 3 can provide an interaction reward corresponding to the progress branch according to the number of user terminals. Since the server 3 provides an interaction reward according to the number of user terminals, the social relationship between users conducting virtual-real interaction can be promoted. This step can achieve the technical effect of increasing user stickiness by promoting the social relationship between users.

Step S73: The server determines whether to provide a progress branch according to the interactive reward. For example, the server 3 may provide an interactive reward corresponding to a progress branch to the user terminal 4. Since there is a correlation between multiple progress branches, the server 3 may determine whether to provide a progress branch to the corresponding user terminal 4 according to the interactive reward (for example, opening and providing the corresponding progress branch after obtaining a specific interactive reward).

Step S9: The user terminal receives the user progress from the server.

Step S9 further includes steps S91 and S92.

Step S91: The first user terminal receives the first user progress from the server.

Step S92: The second user terminal receives the second user progress from the server.

Step S11: The user terminal receives the interaction reward from the server.

Step S11 further includes steps S111 and S112.

Step S111: The first user terminal receives the interactive reward from the server.

Step S112: The second user terminal receives the interaction reward from the server.

Please refer to FIG. 4 , which is a schematic diagram of a user-side application USER-APP provided in an embodiment of the present invention.

In the present invention, the user-side application USER-APP refers to an application used to supplement the text description of the physical information carrier 2 and is executed on the user terminal 4 to perform virtual-real interaction. The user-side application USER-APP includes a progress tree structure. For example, the progress tree structure can be used to expand the plot direction of the virtual-real interaction. In other words, the progress tree structure includes multiple progress branches (as shown in FIG. 4, for example: the first progress branch A1; the second progress branches B1, B2; the third progress branches C1, C2, C3; the fourth progress branches D1, D2, D3, D4, etc.), and the multiple progress branches correspond to multiple user progress and form a progress tree structure, and each progress branch is related. In the user-side application USER-APP, each user's interaction result will be input and generated as a progress branch of the progress tree structure. Although the programming of the progress tree structure can bring better scalability to the application, if each interaction result will generate 2 (or more) subsequent progress branches, then as the virtual and real interactions progress, the progress tree structure will exponentially expand multiple interaction results and generate progress branches, which will greatly increase the difficulty of programming and greatly increase the space occupied by the user-side application USER-APP in the storage module.

In this regard, as shown in FIG4 , the progress tree structure of the present invention can be used to solve the above-mentioned problem.

For example, the interaction result of the physical information carrier 2 can be realized in the form of winning or losing (but the interaction result is not limited to winning or losing), that is, when the first user and the second user conduct virtual and real interactions through the physical information carrier 2 and obtain interaction results, if the interaction result of the first user is a win, then the interaction result of the second user is a loss (conversely: if the interaction result of the first user is a loss, then the interaction result of the second user is a win). In other words, the physical information carrier 2 can provide interaction results, and the interaction results can include a first interaction result and a second interaction result, and the first interaction result and the second interaction result are mutually exclusive.

Taking the virtual-real interaction between the first user and the second user as an example, when the interaction result of the first user is a win, the first user can input the first interaction result (win) through the user-side application USER-APP, and the user progress of the first user in the progress tree structure enters the second branch progress B1 from the first branch progress A1, and the server 3 records the user progress of the first user (first user progress) as A1 and B1; when the interaction result of the second user is a negative, the second user can input the second interaction result (negative) through the user-side application USER-APP, and the user progress of the second user enters the second branch progress B2 from the first branch progress A1, and the server 3 records the user progress of the second user (second user progress) as A1 and B2. As described above, the progress tree structure can be shared among multiple users, the server 3 can record and provide the progress branches that each user terminal 4 has reached to the user terminal 4, and the user-end application USER-APP can provide text descriptions corresponding to each progress branch (such as main/branch stories applicable to virtual-reality interaction, etc.). It should be noted that since each progress branch is related (for example, connected by stories with certain relevance), the user must open the progress branch according to the route planned by the progress tree structure. For example, when the user's user progress is recorded as A1 by the server 3, the user cannot skip the second progress branch B1, B2 and directly participate in the third progress branch C1, C2, C3 or subsequent progress branches. The user must first open the second progress branch B1 before participating in the third progress branch C1, C2, and must first open the second progress branch B2 before participating in the third progress branch C2, C3.

When multiple users want to interact with each other in the virtual and real world, the server can determine the common progress according to the progress of multiple users in the progress tree structure, and determine the reasonable progress and unreasonable progress according to the progress of multiple users, and provide the reasonable progress as the common progress to multiple user terminals.

For example, a first user and a second user with different progress can interact with each other through the server 3 and their respective user terminals. The progress of the first user is recorded by the server 3 as A1, B1, C1, C2, D1, and the progress of the second user is recorded by the server 3 as A1, B2, C2, C3, D3. Server 3 can determine the common progress based on multiple user progress in the progress tree structure. Since the first user and the second user have the same user progress in their user progress (A1 and C2 are both recorded in server 3), server 3 can determine that the common progress is the first progress branch A1 and the third progress branch C2. Although the first user and the second user have both reached the third progress branch C2, since neither of the second progress branches B1 and B2 is determined to be a common progress, the first progress branch A1 is determined to be a reasonable progress and the third progress branch C2 is determined to be an unreasonable progress. Next, since the server 3 provides the first progress branch A1 as a common progress to the first user terminal 41 and the second user terminal 42, when the first user and the second user perform virtual-reality interaction together, they need to start from the first progress branch A1.

In summary, the virtual-reality interaction system of the present invention can provide interaction results through a physical information carrier, and then provide the user progress to each user terminal according to the interaction results through a server, so that the present invention only needs to record a small amount of necessary explanatory text on the physical information carrier, and the user can quickly and efficiently understand the current interaction status through the information provided by the user-side application (such as information corresponding to the user progress), and the interaction can proceed smoothly through the technical framework of virtual-reality interaction.

Although the present invention has been disclosed as above by way of embodiments, they are not intended to limit the present invention. A person having ordinary knowledge in the technical field to which the present invention belongs may make some changes and modifications without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the scope defined in the attached patent application.

1: Virtual-Real Interaction System 2: Physical Information Carrier 3: Server 4: User Terminal 41: First User Terminal 411: Input Module 412: Display Module 413: Communication Module 42: Second User Terminal 43: Third User Terminal S1~S11: Step S31, S32: Step S51, S511: Step S71~S73: Step S91, S92: Step S111, S112: Step USER-APP: User-End Application A1: First Progress Branch B1, B2: Second Progress Branch C1~C3: Third Progress Branch D1~D4: Fourth Progress Branch

FIG1 is a block diagram of a virtual-reality interactive system provided by an embodiment of the present invention; FIG2 is a block diagram of a user terminal provided by an embodiment of the present invention; FIG3 is an interactive flow chart of a virtual-reality interactive system provided by an embodiment of the present invention; and FIG4 is a schematic diagram of a progress tree structure provided by an embodiment of the present invention.

1: Virtual and real interactive system

2: Physical information carrier

3: Server

4: User terminal

41: First user terminal

42: Second user terminal

43: Third user terminal

Claims (5)

A virtual-reality interaction system, comprising: A physical information carrier, comprising physical interaction information applicable to a user-side application, for providing an interaction result; A server, for providing a user progress according to the interaction result, the user progress comprising a first user progress and a second user progress; and A plurality of user terminals, comprising: A first user terminal, connected to the server for communication, for executing the user-side application, inputting the interaction result through the user-side application, and receiving the first user progress from the server; and A second user terminal, connected to the server for communication, for executing the user-side application, inputting the interaction result through the user-side application, and receiving the second user progress from the server; The user-side application includes a progress tree structure, the progress tree structure includes a plurality of progress branches, and the progress branches correspond to a plurality of user progresses; The server determines a common progress based on the user progresses, and provides the common progress to the user terminals; The server determines a reasonable progress and an unreasonable progress based on the user progresses, and provides the reasonable progress as the common progress to the user terminals. A virtual-reality interactive system as described in claim 1, wherein the interactive result includes a first interactive result and a second interactive result, and the first interactive result and the second interactive result are mutually exclusive. A virtual-reality interactive system as described in claim 1, wherein the server provides an interactive reward based on a number of completions of the progress branches. The virtual-reality interactive system as described in claim 1, wherein the server provides an interactive reward corresponding to the progress branches based on a number of user terminals. A virtual-reality interactive system as described in claim 1, wherein the server determines whether to provide the progress branches based on an interactive reward.

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