AI-Driven Screen-Sharing Interface for Automatic Cross-Device Focus

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Solution Overview

Problem

Web conferencing applications often provide suboptimal user experiences when sharing content across devices with different form factors, leading to user inefficiencies and fatigue due to the need for manual zooming and adjustments to view important parts of the shared screen.

Innovation Solution

An adaptive user interface amelioration program that utilizes natural language processing, optical character recognition, and image object detection to analyze shared content and device characteristics, dynamically modifying the display to focus on relevant elements based on user profiles and device capabilities.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If manual zooming and adjustments are required to view important parts of the shared screen, then users can control their own viewing preferences, but user inefficiency and fatigue increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemanual adjustment requirementVSAvoiduser efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically analyzes the shared screen content using NLP and object detection to identify important elements, then autonomously adjusts the viewing area and zoom level without requiring user intervention. The system serves itself by making intelligent decisions about what to highlight based on extracted textual and visual information.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary analysis of the shared screen content before displaying it to the user. By extracting text elements, identifying objects, and determining importance in advance, the system prepares optimized viewing parameters ahead of time, eliminating the need for manual adjustment during the meeting.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Area of stationary object

If the display shows the entire shared screen, then all content is visible, but important elements cannot be highlighted for users with smaller screens

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveviewing areaVSAvoiddevice form factor adaptability
Core Design Contradiction:
Area of stationary objectVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies different display qualities to different regions of the shared screen based on their importance. By identifying critical elements through NLP and object detection, the system enhances the local quality of those specific areas by increasing zoom level and adjusting brightness/contrast, while maintaining appropriate display for the rest of the content.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The display parameters are dynamically adjusted based on the detected content and device characteristics. The system continuously monitors the shared screen, identifies important elements, and real-time modifies viewing area, zoom level, and highlight parameters to adapt to different device form factors and content changes during the meeting.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Extent of automation

If the system analyzes shared content using NLP and object detection, then relevant elements can be automatically identified, but processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveautomatic content analysisVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Extent of automationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies partial analysis by focusing computational resources on extracting only the most critical text elements and objects from the shared screen. Rather than analyzing every pixel and word, the system uses NLP to identify key concepts and object detection to locate important elements, performing just enough analysis to achieve effective content highlighting.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS20250342001A1Ai-driven adaptive user interface amelioration in screen sharing
Publication Date: 2025.11.06 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for adaptive user interface amelioration during a screen sharing session is provided. The embodiment may include receiving shared content during a screen sharing session. The embodiment may also include identifying one or more device characteristics for a user device associated with a user and one or more user profile characteristics for the user. The embodiment may further include extracting topical elements within the received shared content. The embodiment may also include identifying a location of one or more objects and/or one or more text elements in the shared content. The embodiment may further include modifying a viewing area of the shared content on a display screen of the user device.