Web Server for Real-Time Collaborative Animation Production

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional animation production methods require professional education and training, and are inefficient due to sequential collaborative work rather than real-time collaboration, making it difficult for multiple users to produce high-quality animations efficiently.

Innovation Solution

A web server with a user interface unit that allows multiple users to input and combine direction data in real-time for animation production, using Television Program Making Language (TVML), and includes a control unit for synchronizing user inputs across multiple user interfaces, enabling simultaneous collaboration and real-time feedback through a chatting window.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If conventional animation production methods are used, then professional education and training are required, but production efficiency is low and time consumption is high

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveproduction efficiencyVSAvoidproduction time

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The animation production process is divided into multiple independent tracks (character animation track, background animation track, effect animation track, etc.), allowing different users to work on different segments simultaneously without interfering with each other, thereby improving production efficiency and reducing time consumption

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Multiple users' direction data from different tracks are merged and synthesized by the server to generate the complete animation, enabling collaborative real-time production while maintaining professional quality standards

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Productivity

If sequential collaborative work is used, then coordination is simpler, but real-time collaboration efficiency is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecollaborative production efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system provides real-time feedback to users by displaying direction data from other tracks and showing the effects of their inputs immediately, enabling synchronized collaborative work while the server manages the complexity of coordinating multiple users

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The server acts as an intermediary that receives direction data from multiple users, coordinates their inputs, and generates the final animation, abstracting the complexity of multi-user coordination from the users themselves

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS9454284B2Web server for supporting collaborative animation production service and method thereof

Publication Date: 2016.09.27 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

AI summary

A web server for supporting a collaborative animation production service. The web server includes a user interface (UI) unit to provide a UI to receive direction data for each scene required for animation production in parallel to users connected to the web server, and a generating unit to combine the direction data input to the UI for each scene and generate an animation corresponding to the combined direction data. A plurality of users thereby collaborate to produce an animation in real time, making it possible to shorten the production time of the animation and produce a high quality animation.