Automated Story Generation Using Theme Scripts and User Assets

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face challenges in creating polished stories from user assets like images and videos due to the time and effort required, as well as the need for artistic talent and software knowledge, making it difficult to generate high-quality presentations that stand out in a crowded media landscape.

Innovation Solution

An automated system that analyzes and organizes user content according to theme script rules, automatically generating a structured story with personalized elements such as captions, transitions, and music, minimizing user effort while ensuring high-quality output.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Extent of automation

If users manually create stories from user assets, then the story can be personalized and polished, but it requires significant time, effort, artistic talent, and software knowledge

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveautomated story generationVSAvoiduser effort required
Core Design Contradiction:
Extent of automationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs self-service by automatically analyzing user assets, extracting metadata, organizing content into chapters, and generating polished stories without requiring user intervention in the creative process. The system serves itself by using its own computational resources and algorithms to complete the entire story generation workflow.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the mechanical system of manual story creation with an automated computational system. Instead of users manually arranging assets and applying effects, the system uses algorithms to analyze assets, generate metadata, organize content, and apply visual and audio treatments automatically.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Manufacturing precision

If users manually create stories with high polish and quality, then the presentation stands out, but it requires advanced skills and artistic talent

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestory quality and polishVSAvoidsoftware knowledge required
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system acts as an intermediary between raw user assets and the final polished story. It introduces intermediate processing steps including automated metadata extraction, content analysis, chapter organization, and application of pre-configured visual and audio treatments that bridge the gap between simple asset collection and professionally polished storytelling.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes parameters of the user assets automatically, including applying visual effects, adjusting audio levels, modifying transitions, and optimizing timing. These parameter changes are applied based on automated analysis of the content rather than manual user adjustment, achieving high polish without requiring user expertise.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Productivity

If more time is spent on story creation, then the quality and personalization improve, but the productivity decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestory generation speedVSAvoidtime required for story creation
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-analyzing user assets and extracting metadata before the actual story creation process. It prepares the content by organizing assets into potential chapters and pre-configuring appropriate visual and audio treatments, so that the final story generation can proceed rapidly without requiring time-consuming manual setup.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS9161007B2Automated story generation
Publication Date: 2015.10.13 MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
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AI summary

Automatic story production is implemented by the utilization of theme scripts with user assets to generate a quality finished product with minimum user input or direction. A user chooses a predesigned theme script to be applied to the user's assets to automatically create a story with a particular look and feel. Metadata and feature information, when available, is automatically gathered from the user assets to personalize the generated story. A user can include additional information and/or alter any aspect of the generated story to further personalize the resultant finished product.