US 11,590,663 B2 · Virtual reality enabled activity allocation

Abstract

Disclosed embodiments provide techniques for virtual reality enabled activity allocation. A camera system monitors a physical environment from multiple angles, generating real-time video feeds of the physical environment. A real-time virtual reality environment (RTVRE) rendering system utilizes the real-time video feeds as input to create a virtual reality environment that is representative of the physical environment. A user performs an action in the virtual environment that corresponds to a task to be performed in the physical environment. A computer-implemented virtual reality control management system assesses the task and assigns the task to an electromechanical device that is best-suited to perform the task, based on a scoring algorithm. This enables actions such as remote monitoring and control of a premises. Thus, disclosed embodiments improve the technical field of remote monitoring and control of a premises.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method for executing a task in a physical environment based on a virtual action, the method, comprising:

generating a real-time virtual reality (RTVR) environment based on one or more live camera feeds from the physical environment;
detecting an occurrence of the virtual action in the RTVR environment;
determining a task in the physical environment that corresponds to the virtual action in the RTVR environment;
identifying a plurality of electromechanical devices in the physical environment, the plurality of electromechanical devices including at least one general purpose robot and at least one dedicated device;
deriving a score for each electromechanical device from the plurality of electromechanical devices disposed within the physical environment based on capability to perform the task;
ranking the plurality of electromechanical devices based on the derived score;
and
in response to determining a high score at or above a threshold, assigning the task to the electromechanical device associated with the high score.

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An electronic computation device comprising:

a processor;
a memory coupled to the processor, the memory containing instructions, that when executed by the processor, cause the electronic computation device to:
generate a real-time virtual reality (RTVR) environment based on one or more live camera feeds from a physical environment;
detect a virtual action occurring in the RTVR environment;
determine a task in the physical environment that corresponds to the virtual action in the RTVR environment;
identify a plurality of electromechanical devices in the physical environment, the plurality of electromechanical devices including at least one general purpose robot and at least one dedicated device;
derive a score for each electromechanical device from a plurality of electromechanical devices disposed within the physical environment based on capability to perform the task;
rank the plurality of electromechanical devices based on the derived score;
and
in response to determining a high score at or above a threshold, assign the task to the electromechanical device associated with the high score.

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A computer program product for an electronic computation device comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the electronic computation device to:

generate a real-time virtual reality (RTVR) environment based on one or more live camera feeds from a physical environment;
detect a virtual action occurring in the RTVR environment;
determine a task in the physical environment that corresponds to the virtual action in the RTVR environment;
identify a plurality of electromechanical devices in the physical environment, the plurality of electromechanical devices including at least one general purpose robot and at least one dedicated device;
derive a score for each electromechanical device from a plurality of electromechanical devices disposed within the physical environment based on capability to perform the task;
rank the plurality of electromechanical devices based on the derived score;
and
in response to determining a high score at or above a threshold, assign the task to the electromechanical device associated with the high score.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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