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US 2016/0364995 A1Published application
Collaborative training system and method, computer program product, as well as an instructor unit and a participant unit for use in the training system
AssigneeMind Myths Limited
InventorMark RODDY
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Abstract
A system for collaborative training is provided that includes an instructor unit and a plurality of participant units. The instructor unit and the plurality of participant units are communicatively coupled to each other by a remote connection. The instructor unit enables the instructor to remotely control the virtual environment of a plurality of participants involved, while maintaining a good overview of their mental state and progress.
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An instructor unit for use in a collaborative training system that further includes a plurality of participant units to be communicatively coupled with the instructor unit, the instructor unit comprising:
- a display facility having a display space;
- a storage facility storing at least associating data, associating respective participant units with respective spatial regions in the display space;
- an image rendering facility for rendering image data to be displayed in the display space, the image data to be displayed including a visual representation of participants in the respective spatial regions;
- a user input facility for accepting user input by detection of a spatial relationship between a user gesture and the display space, for identifying a spatial region of said respective spatial regions based on said spatial relationship for providing an identification indicative for an identity of a participant associated with the identified spatial region, and for providing participant environment control information that specifies the virtual environment or modification thereof, to be provided to the participant unit of the identified participant;
- a communication facility for receiving participant messages conveying state data indicative for detectable features of respective participants' states from their respective participant units, and for transmitting instructor messages conveying virtual environment control data for specifying a virtual environment to be generated for respective participants' by their respective participant units;
- an update facility for receiving the participant messages from the communication facility, for retrieving an identity of a participant and the participant state data from the participant messages and for updating the visual representation of the identified participants in accordance with the retrieved participant state data;
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- a message preparing facility that receives the identification of the participant designated by the user input and the participant environment control information and in response thereto prepares a message to be sent by communication facility to the participant unit of that participant,
- wherein the image rendering facility is arranged to render the visual representation of each participant in accordance with participant state data received from each participants' respective participant unit.
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A participant unit comprising:
- a participant communication unit to couple said participant unit to an instructor unit by a remote connection to form a training system, further comprising a spatial state sensor module to sense a participant's physical orientation and to provide spatial state data indicative of said physical orientation;
- a storage space for storing model data, specifying an environment and spatial state data, said participant communication unit being provided to receive model data specifying an environment from said instructor unit and to transmit spatial state data to said instructor unit, unit;
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- a virtual reality rendering unit using said model data and said spatial state data to render a virtual environment in accordance with said model data and said spatial state data.
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A method for collaborative training of a plurality of participants at respective participant locations by an instructor at an instructor location, at least one of said participant locations being remotely arranged with respect to the instructor location, the method comprising the step of:
- in said instructor location rendering image data in a display space perceivable by the instructor, said display space comprising spatial regions associated with respective participants;
- in a storage space maintaining applicant specific data, including at least data associating each participant with a respective spatial region in said display space and virtual environment control data for specifying a virtual environment to be rendered for said participant;
- communicating said virtual environment control data to said respective participants;
- at said respective participant locations rendering a virtual environment for said participants in accordance with said communicated virtual environment control data;
- in said instructor location, receiving control input from the instructor in the form of a spatial relationship between a user gesture and the display space;
- detecting a spatial region identified by said gesture and modifying the virtual environment control data of the participant associated with said identified spatial
- communicating the virtual environment control data of the participant;
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- modifying the virtual environment for said participant in the participants' location in accordance with said communicated virtual environment control data.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.