Virtual live-streaming control method and apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12593079-B2
Application number	US-202318685220-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 13, 2023
Priority date	Jan 25, 2022
Publication date	Mar 31, 2026
Grant date	Mar 31, 2026

Abstract

An embodiment of the present application provides a virtual live-streaming control method, where the virtual live-streaming control method includes: setting up a virtual character to perform a live-streaming of news information related to a theme activity in a live-streaming room; driving the virtual character to broadcast at least one piece of the news information according to a preset broadcast rule; acquiring at least one activity event related to the news information; acquiring a static activity material generated based on the at least one activity event; and displaying the at least one activity event in the static activity material through a target display area of the live-streaming room in response to a display instruction of the static activity material.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . A virtual live-streaming control method, comprising:
setting up a virtual character to perform a live-streaming of news information related to a theme activity in a live-streaming room; driving the virtual character to broadcast at least one piece of the news information according to a preset broadcast rule; acquiring at least one activity event related to the news information; acquiring a static activity material generated based on the at least one activity event; and displaying the at least one activity event in the static activity material through a target display area of the live-streaming room in response to a display instruction of the static activity material,
wherein the theme activity comprises at least two theme sub-activities, and
wherein the driving the virtual character to broadcast the at least one piece of the news information according to the preset broadcast rule comprises:
driving the virtual character to broadcast at least one piece of first news information related to a first theme sub-activity, and
switching a next piece of broadcast information to at least one piece of second news information related to a second theme sub-activity in case that it is detected that a broadcast quantity of the at least one piece of first news information meets a first preset quantity threshold, or a broadcast duration of the at least one piece of first news information meets a first preset duration threshold.

2 . The virtual live-streaming control method according to claim 1 , wherein the driving the virtual character to broadcast the at least one piece of the news information according to the preset broadcast rule comprises:
determining a broadcast order of the at least one piece of the news information according to a generation time and a historical broadcast record of the at least one piece of the news information; and driving the virtual character to broadcast the at least one piece of the news information according to the broadcast order.

3 . The virtual live-streaming control method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
determining, based on a source type of one or more information sources, a news information collection strategy corresponding to the source type; and collecting news information that matches a preset condition based on the news information collection strategy, wherein the preset condition comprises the theme activity or a preset custom event.

4 . The virtual live-streaming control method according to claim 1 , after the acquiring the static activity material generated based on the at least one activity event, further comprising:
displaying a clickable control corresponding to the static activity material to a user through the live-streaming room, wherein the clickable control is associated with the at least one activity event; and generating the display instruction of the static activity material in a case that a click operation by the user against the clickable control is detected.

5 . The virtual live-streaming control method according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one activity event forms at least two activity event sets, the displaying the at least one activity event in the static activity material through the target display area of the live-streaming room comprises:
displaying at least one activity event contained in a first activity event set through the target display area of the live-streaming room; and displaying, in response to a switch instruction of an activity event set, at least one activity event contained in a second activity event set corresponding to the switch instruction.

6 . The virtual live-streaming control method according to claim 1 , after the acquiring the static activity material generated based on the at least one activity event, further comprising:
acquiring theme interaction information submitted by a user in the live-streaming room, and predicting interaction intention information of the user based on the theme interaction information; and in a case that the interaction intention information is determined to be related to a target activity event in the at least one activity event, generating a display instruction of a static activity material of the target activity event.

7 . The virtual live-streaming control method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
acquiring theme interaction information submitted by a user in the live-streaming room, and predicting interaction intention information of the user based on the theme interaction information; and in a case that the interaction intention information is determined to be related to a target object in the news information, acquiring feedback information corresponding to the target object and displaying the feedback information through the target display area of the live-streaming room, wherein the target object has a transaction attribute.

8 . The virtual live-streaming control method according to claim 7 , wherein the feedback information comprises a transaction link with the target object;
accordingly, the acquiring the feedback information corresponding to the target object and displaying the feedback information through the target display area of the live-streaming room comprises: acquiring the transaction link of the target object and sending the transaction link to a client, wherein the client displays the transaction link to the user and jumps from the live-streaming room to a transaction interface of an object transaction platform in a case that the user is detected to click on the transaction link.

9 . The virtual live-streaming control method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
in a case that the news information is detected to meet a preset condition, driving the virtual character to perform a corresponding action to be performed after the virtual character broadcasts the news information; wherein the preset condition comprises one of the following: comprising a preset keyword and/or comprising a preset scene.

10 . The virtual live-streaming control method according to claim 9 , further comprising:
in the case that the news information is detected to meet the preset condition, prompting a user with an action display control related to the theme activity, wherein the action display control is associated with at least one candidate action to be performed related to the theme activity; receiving a click instruction of the user for the action display control to display the at least one candidate action to be performed related to the theme activity; and receiving a click instruction submitted by the user for the at least one candidate action to be performed to determine the corresponding action to be performed.

11 . The virtual live-streaming control method according to claim 9 , wherein the corresponding action to be performed is dance movements, the driving the virtual character to perform the corresponding action to be performed further comprises:
determining a background audio corresponding to the dance movements; and playing the background audio and simultaneously driving the virtual character to perform the dance movements.

12 . The virtual live-streaming control method according to claim 1 , wherein
the driving the virtual character to broadcast the at least one piece of the news information according to the preset broadcast rule further comprises: after switching the next piece of broadcast information to the at least one piece of second news information related to the second theme sub-activity, driving the virtual character to broadcast the at least one piece of second news information related to the second theme sub-activity; and returning t

Assignees

• Hangzhou Alicloud Feitian Information Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zhang Yuxin
• Rui Lin

Classifications

• G06T17/00

  Three-dimensional [3D] modelling for computer graphics · CPC title

• H04N21/2187 Primary

  Live feed · CPC title

• H04N21/44012

  involving rendering scenes according to scene graphs, e.g. MPEG-4 scene graphs · CPC title

• H04N21/4788

  communicating with other users, e.g. chatting {(arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104)} · CPC title

• H04N21/431 Primary

  Generation of visual interfaces {for content selection or interaction}; Content or additional data rendering · CPC title