Automated UI Generation for Entity Component Property Editing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Developing user interfaces for entity component systems in applications like gaming engines is tedious, repetitive, and error-prone, requiring front-end coding knowledge, and inconsistent across developers, leading to bugs and performance issues.

Innovation Solution

An automated system generates user interfaces by translating data objects representing component properties into property fields, eliminating the need for manual coding, ensuring consistent and efficient rendering and management of component properties across different applications.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If manual coding is used to develop user interfaces for entity component systems, then developers can create customized interfaces, but the process becomes tedious, error-prone, and requires specialized front-end coding knowledge

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecustomization capabilityVSAvoidcoding complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an automated UI generation system that acts as an intermediary between component definitions and rendered interfaces. This system translates component property definitions into appropriate UI controls automatically, eliminating the need for developers to manually code front-end interfaces while maintaining full customization capability based on component specifications.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The UI generation system enables components to define their own interface requirements through property definitions. The system then automatically generates the corresponding UI controls based on these self-defined specifications, allowing components to serve their own interface generation needs without external manual coding intervention.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Adaptability or versatility

If manual coding is used for each component interface, then specific customization is possible, but code consistency and reliability deteriorate due to repetitive manual work

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinterface customizationVSAvoidcode consistency

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a universal UI generation system that handles multiple component types through a single automated process. This system provides consistent UI generation logic across all components while still allowing each component to specify its unique interface requirements through property definitions, ensuring both consistency and customization.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system allows components to define their interface characteristics through parameterized property definitions. By changing these definition parameters, the automated system generates appropriately customized UI controls while maintaining consistent generation logic, thus achieving both customization and reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

3Adaptability or versatility

If developers manually create user interfaces, then they can implement specific features, but productivity decreases due to the time-consuming nature of front-end coding

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvefeature implementationVSAvoiddevelopment speed

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements preliminary action by having components define their interface requirements upfront through property definitions during the component creation phase. The automated UI generation system then uses these pre-defined specifications to generate the complete interface automatically, eliminating the need for separate manual front-end coding steps and significantly accelerating development.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system replaces the manual mechanical process of front-end coding with an automated computational system. The UI generation system automatically translates component property definitions into rendered interfaces, substituting manual coding labor with automated processing while preserving the ability to implement specific features through property configuration.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS12625682B2Methods and systems for automated generation of a user interface

Publication Date: 2026.05.12 LEMON INC(GB)

AI summary

A method and system for automated generation of a user interface that includes one or more components for one or more entities in an entity component system. The method includes receiving one or more data objects for one or more component properties of the one or more components for the user interface; storing the one or more data objects for the one or more component properties in storage; and accessing the one or more data objects from the storage and determining property fields for the user interface corresponding to the one or more data objects using a property fields provider module. The method further includes generating the user interface comprising the one or more components, in an automated manner, based on the property fields corresponding to the one or more data objects.