AI User Appearance Modification for Unprepared Video Calls

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users often find themselves in urgent video calls with undesirable visual appearances due to lack of preparation time, leading to suboptimal presentation during communication.

Innovation Solution

A system utilizing artificial intelligence to compare live user images with defined appearance data, modifying attributes such as hair, facial features, and clothing to generate a more desirable image for video calls.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If users participate in video calls without preparation time, then communication accessibility is improved, but visual appearance quality deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication accessibilityVSAvoidvisual appearance quality
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by capturing and storing user appearance data during designated preparation periods before the actual video call. Image data is collected and processed in advance to generate defined appearance representations, allowing the system to prepare modified appearance data before the communication event occurs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates a copy of the user's actual appearance data and generates a modified version of this copy that aligns with predefined appearance preferences. This copied and modified appearance data is then used in the video call instead of the original unmodified appearance, resolving the contradiction between accessibility and appearance quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Manufacturing precision

If the system automatically modifies user appearance, then visual appearance quality is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevisual appearance qualityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs self-service by automatically capturing, processing, and modifying the user's own appearance data without requiring external intervention. The user profile stores predefined appearance preferences, and the system autonomously compares captured data against these preferences to generate modified appearance representations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes parameters of the user appearance data by modifying specific visual attributes (such as hair, facial features, clothing) based on predefined preferences. The appearance modification process adjusts these parameters to transform the captured appearance into a desired appearance while managing system complexity through parameterized transformation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Manufacturing precision

If the system processes and modifies user appearance data, then visual appearance quality is improved, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevisual appearance qualityVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs appearance data processing and modification in advance during preparation periods before the video call begins. By completing these time-consuming tasks beforehand, the actual video call can start without delay, effectively managing processing time loss.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system maintains continuous operation by continuously capturing and processing appearance data during preparation periods, ensuring that modified appearance data is ready when needed. This continuous processing approach optimizes the timing of computational tasks to minimize impact on overall system response time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentUS20260004487A1User appearance modification for video communication
Publication Date: 2026.01.01 MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
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AI summary

Techniques for user appearance modification for video communication are described. For instance, the described techniques can be implemented to detect that input user appearance data for a video communication exceeds a threshold variation from defined user appearance data associated with a user profile. The input user appearance data can be modified based at least in part on the defined user appearance data to generate modified user appearance data, and the modified user appearance data can be output as part of the video communication.