Animation Overlay Generation in Messaging Sessions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic messaging systems lack the ability to enhance user engagement and communication through dynamic and private animations within communication sessions.
Innovation Solution
The messaging system generates and displays animation overlays during communication sessions, which include avatars of users participating in the session, and can also include three-dimensional animations, appearing as an additional layer on the communication interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If animation overlays are generated and displayed during communication sessions, then user engagement and communication effectiveness are improved, but system complexity and resource consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The animation overlay system is segmented into independent components: animation generation module, overlay composition module, and display module. This allows the system to process and render animations in discrete steps, reducing overall complexity while maintaining engagement capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a visual dimension to text-based communication by overlaying animated avatar representations on the communication interface. This dimensional enhancement improves user engagement without fundamentally restructuring the core messaging system.
2Loss of information
If animation overlays with avatars are displayed to represent users, then communication effectiveness and emotional expression are improved, but data privacy and traceability concerns worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates anonymized visual copies of users in the form of avatar-based animation overlays. These copies convey user presence and emotional state without exposing personally identifiable information, thus maintaining communication effectiveness while protecting data privacy.
Solution Approach 2:
The animation overlays provide localized visual information about user emotions and reactions at specific moments in the conversation, rather than requiring comprehensive personal data. This localized approach maintains privacy while enhancing communication effectiveness.
3Adaptability or versatility
If three-dimensional animations are included in the overlay, then visual appeal and user engagement are improved, but processing requirements and energy consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements three-dimensional animation effects selectively and partially, applying them only to key moments or specific users in the conversation rather than continuously to all elements. This reduces processing energy requirements while maintaining visual appeal during critical engagement moments.
Solution Approach 2:
The animation overlays are updated periodically rather than in real-time continuous rendering, allowing the system to maintain visually appealing three-dimensional effects while reducing overall processing energy consumption through batched rendering cycles.
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AI summary
Method of generating animation overlays starts with a processor causing a communication interface for a communication session to be displayed at client devices. The processor receives from a first client device an animation sending request and causes an animation sending interface to be displayed in the communication interface of the first client device. The animation sending interface comprises animation overlay icons. Each of the animation overlay icons comprise a first avatar associated with the first user. The processor receives from the first client device a selection of a first animation overlay icon and causes the first animation overlay corresponding to the first animation overlay icon to be displayed as an overlay on the communication interface of each of the plurality of client devices. The first animation overlay is an animation that includes the first avatar. Other embodiments are disclosed.