SoftBank Group filed 1 patent in the AI & Machine Learning category.
The application covers a system that allows sports fans to point their phones at a live game and receive real-time commentary from a personalized virtual character. This AI-powered commentator analyzes viewer emotions and adapts its presentation accordingly, creating an individualized viewing experience.
SoftBank's single AI and machine learning patent addresses the challenge of personalizing live sports commentary through mobile devices. The system combines computer vision to analyze what's happening on the field with a database of multi-sport motion data that drives a virtual character's movements in sync with the action. The virtual commentator generates interactive dialogue using AI and adjusts its commentary style based on detected viewer emotions, going beyond traditional one-way broadcast overlays. This approach differs from prior chatbot systems that lacked both sports-specific image analysis and emotion-responsive animation tied to live gameplay.
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