US 11,809,679 B2
Personal digital assistance and virtual reality
John Cronin, Williston, VT (US)
Assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC, San Mateo, CA (US)
Filed by SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC., San Mateo, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/202,499.
Application 17/202,499 is a continuation of application No. 14/460,272, filed on Aug. 14, 2014, granted, now 10,949,054, issued on Mar. 16, 2021.
Application 14/460,272 is a continuation of application No. 14/147,429, filed on Jan. 3, 2014, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/786,572, filed on Mar. 15, 2013.
Prior Publication US 2021/0344872 A1, Nov. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 3/04815 (2022.01); G06F 16/9537 (2019.01); G06F 16/9538 (2019.01); H04L 67/131 (2022.01); G06F 16/242 (2019.01); H04N 7/15 (2006.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01); H04L 67/01 (2022.01); H04L 65/403 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 3/04815 (2013.01) [G06F 16/243 (2019.01); G06F 16/9537 (2019.01); G06F 16/9538 (2019.01); H04L 65/403 (2013.01); H04L 67/01 (2022.05); H04L 67/131 (2022.05); H04N 7/157 (2013.01); H04N 7/183 (2013.01); A63F 2300/8082 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
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1. A method for modifying virtual reality (VR) representations, the method comprising:
receiving one or more questions at a natural language interface, wherein the questions are associated with one or more sets of user-generated content from a user device of a user, the user-generated content regarding a location associated with a VR representation;
querying one or more web sources based on the questions associated with the user-generated content;
providing answers to the questions through the natural language interface based on query results from the web sources, wherein the query results include one or more images downloaded from the queried web sources associated with the location;
modifying, by a host server that communicates with a domain server, a VR data set associated with the location based on the query results, wherein the user-generated content and query results are added to the VR data set and stored at one or more VR data servers;
generating a display of a map that includes an icon indicating that the one or more images downloaded from the queried web sources associated with the location are available;
receiving a selection from a visitor device specifying the location; and
allowing the visitor device to access the modified VR data set, wherein a new VR representation of the location is generated in accordance with the modified data set that includes the one or more images from the query results.