Context-Aware Content Delivery via Ambient Image Recognition

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current systems lack effective methods to deliver personalized and context-aware content to users based on their ambient environment, leading to suboptimal engagement and interaction between consumers and brands.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that utilize an augmented reality server to receive ambient environment information from user devices, identify user categories, and trigger relevant marketing messages or actions, such as overlaying virtual content onto real-world images, based on image recognition and contextual data.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional advertising methods are used, then brand awareness can be achieved, but consumer engagement and interaction remain insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconsumer engagementVSAvoidcontext awareness
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system changes the parameters of content delivery by transitioning from static, one-size-fits-all advertising to dynamic, personalized content based on ambient environment parameters (location, weather, time, surrounding objects). This enables adaptation to different consumer contexts and situations, significantly improving engagement while maintaining brand message delivery.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing ambient environment data, user profiles, and content libraries before actual content delivery. The server prepares personalized content recommendations in advance based on predicted consumer needs and environmental contexts, enabling faster and more relevant content delivery when opportunities arise.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If generic marketing messages are delivered to all users, then system complexity remains low, but personalization and relevance of content decrease

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent personalizationVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments users into different categories based on their profiles, behaviors, and preferences. It also segments content into multiple types and formats, and segments the ambient environment into discrete analyzable elements. This segmentation enables personalized content delivery without requiring the entire system to become overly complex, as each segment can be processed independently.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The server acts as an intermediary between the complex ambient environment analysis and the user device. It handles the heavy processing of environment data, user profiling, and content selection, then delivers simplified personalized content recommendations to user devices. This intermediary approach enables high personalization while keeping user device complexity low.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Measurement precision

If real-time ambient environment analysis is performed, then content relevance improves, but processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveenvironmental context accuracyVSAvoidcontent delivery time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs partial analysis by focusing on the most relevant ambient environment factors for each specific content delivery opportunity rather than analyzing all possible environmental parameters. It selectively processes only the critical elements needed for that particular personalization decision, reducing processing time while maintaining sufficient accuracy for effective content matching.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS10592929B2Systems and methods for delivering content
Publication Date: 2020.03.17 VP HOLDINGS LLC
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AI summary

The present disclosure relates to computer-implemented systems and methods for delivering content. An example method may include receiving ambient environment information associated with a user device, the ambient environment information comprising image information for an image having multiple objects positioned within the image, and identifying a user associated with the user device. The method may include identifying a user category associated with the user, and identifying at least two of the objects positioned within the image based at least in part on the image information. The method may include identifying one or more triggers based at least in part on the at least two objects, and identifying, based at least in part on the one or more triggers, at least one marketing message associated with the one or more triggers, the ambient environment information, and the user category. The method may include sending the marketing message to the user device.