AR Content Generation Using Extracted Visual Effects

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users of technology platforms are unable to personalize third-party content, such as advertisements, which hinders their ability to visualize how products would look in their specific context, leading to hesitation in purchases.

Innovation Solution

A system that generates augmented reality content based on third-party content, allowing users to customize image or video content captured by their device with effects from the third-party content, enabling personalized visualization of products.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If third-party content is provided to users, then content availability increases, but user ability to personalize content remains limited

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

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts visual effects from third-party content (videos, images) and creates simplified effect representations that can be applied to user-captured media. Instead of requiring users to manipulate complex original content, the system copies and reproduces key visual effects in a usable format, enabling personalization while maintaining system manageability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The system separates visual effects from their original third-party content context, extracting them as independent reusable elements. This extraction process allows effects to be removed from source materials and applied independently to user-generated content, enabling personalization without requiring access to or complexity of original third-party content.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Productivity

If users can customize content with third-party effects, then user engagement increases, but processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser engagementVSAvoidprocessing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary processing of third-party content to extract and pre-process visual effects before they are applied to user content. By preparing effects in advance and storing them in a reusable format, the system reduces real-time processing complexity while enabling extensive user customization and engagement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system divides third-party content into separable components, isolating visual effects from other content elements. This segmentation allows effects to be processed, stored, and applied independently, reducing the complexity of handling complete content files while maintaining rich visual customization capabilities for users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS12073524B2Generating augmented reality content based on third-party content
Publication Date: 2024.08.27 SNAP INC
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AI summary

In one or more implementations, third-party content may include one or more objects and may include one or more visual effects related to the one or more objects. Augmented reality content may be generated that applies the one or more visual effects to additional object shown in a field of view of a camera. The third-party content may correspond to one or more products that are available for purchase via a client application.