Method of collecting advertisement exposure data of 360 VR game replay video

• US 10,406,440 B2
• Filed: 08/26/2016
• Issued: 09/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Stoic Entertainment Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Minkonet Corporation
• Inventors: Ahn, Sanghyuk, Kim, Tae Woo, Lee, Dong Hwal
• Primary Examiner(s): Duffy, David
• Assistant Examiner(s): Doshi, Ankit B
• Application Number:
  US15/247,921
• Publication Number:
  US 20180056190A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,110 Days
• Field of Search: 345210, 345633, 345419
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/25 Output arrangements for video game devices
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/525 Changing parameters of virtual cameras
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/61 using advertising information
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8082 Virtual reality
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0272 Period of advertisement exposure

Abstract

Provided is a method of collecting advertisement exposure data of a 360 virtual reality (VR) game replay video, in which data on advertisements that are applied to a game replay video and actually exposed to a user when the game replay video is displayed on a 360 VR display device is collected.

According to the method of collecting advertisement exposure data of a 360 VR game replay video, data on advertisements that are actually exposed to a user when the user views the 360 VR game replay video by using the 360 VR display device, from among advertisements applied to the 360 VR game replay video, may be effectively collected.

Claims

1. A method of collecting advertisement exposure data of a 360 virtual reality (VR) game replay video displayed on a virtual spherical screen of a 360 degree VR head mount display, the method comprising:

(a) storing, as game object information, shape data corresponding to each identification number of game objects in a game video by the 360 degree VR head mount display;

(b) storing, as advertisement object information, shape data corresponding to each identification number of advertisement objects in the game video by the 360 degree VR head mount display;

(c) storing, as game replay information, movement data of the game objects in virtual space over time during a game play by the 360 degree VR head mount display;

(d) storing, as advertisement application information, movement data of the advertisement objects to be applied to the 360 VR game replay video in the virtual space over time by the 360 degree VR head mount display;

(e) generating the 360 VR game replay video by incorporating the game object information, the advertisement object information, the game replay information, and the advertisement application information with one another and displaying the 360 VR game replay video on a 360 VR display device by the 360 degree VR head mount display; and

(f) while (e) is performed, identifying and tracking the identification number of a first advertisement object, among the advertisement objects, exposed to a gaze vector of a direction that the 360 degree VR head mount display faces, when determined that an angle between the gaze vector and an advertisement vector of a direction of the first advertisement object to be displayed in a VR space of the 360 VR game replay video is within a predetermined range by the 360 degree VR head mount display.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein in (f), storing a period during which the first advertisement object identified as being exposed to the 360 VR head mount display.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising (g) storing an exposure reference angle that is used as a reference for determining whether the first advertisement object is exposed to the 360 VR head mount display in (f),

wherein in (f), if the angle between the gaze vector and the advertisement vector of the first advertisement object is within the predetermined range defined by the exposure reference angle, it is determined that the first advertisement object corresponding to the advertisement vector forming the angle with the gaze vector is exposed to the 360 VR head mount display so as to identify the identification number of the first advertisement object.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising (h) storing an exposure reference period that is used as a reference for determining whether the first advertisement object is exposed to the 360 VR head mount display in (f),

wherein in (f), if the angle between the gaze vector and the advertisement vector of the first advertisement object is maintained for the exposure reference period or longer, it is determined that the first advertisement object is exposed to the 360 VR head mount display so as to identify the identification number of the first advertisement object.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein in (f), only the identification number of the first advertisement object having an advertisement orientation angle within a preset angle range is identified based on the angle between the gaze vector and the first advertisement vector among the advertisement objects included in the advertisement application information,

wherein the advertisement orientation angle is an angle between an object direction of the advertisement objects and a direction extending from a center of the virtual spherical screen to the advertisement object.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising storing an orientation reference angle that is used as a reference for determining that the first advertisement object is inwardly oriented toward the virtual spherical screen based on the advertisement orientation angle,

wherein in (f), whether the first advertisement object is exposed to the 360 VR head mount display is determined only when an advertisement orientation angle of the first advertisement object is within a range of the orientation reference angle.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein in (e), the 360 VR game replay video is generated by excluding a second advertisement object having an advertisement orientation angle that is outside a preset angle range, among advertisement objects included in the advertisement application information, wherein the advertisement orientation angle is an angle between an object direction of the advertisement objects and a direction extending from a center of the virtual spherical screen to the advertisement objects.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising storing an orientation reference angle that is used as a reference for determining the first advertisement object as being inwardly oriented toward the virtual spherical screen based on the advertisement orientation angle,

wherein in (e), the 360 VR game replay video is generated by excluding the second advertisement object having the advertisement orientation angle that is outside a range of the orientation reference angle among the advertisement objects.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein in (f), whether the first advertisement object is exposed to the 360 VR head mount display is identified only when the first advertisement object is in a preset angle range with respect to the gaze vector.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising storing a range of angle (field of view) that is used as a reference for determining that the first advertisement object is displayed on the 360 VR head mount display with respect to the gaze vector,

wherein in (f), whether first advertisement object is exposed to the 360 VR head mount display is identified only when the first advertisement object is in the range of the field of view with respect to the gaze vector.