Color Accommodation Module for On-Demand Accessibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing audio-visual media, such as videogames and movies, lack accessibility features for individuals with disabilities, particularly those with vision impairments, and are labor-intensive to accommodate, with current solutions failing to provide adequate accommodations for diverse impairments beyond hearing loss.
Innovation Solution
An On-Demand Accessibility System that includes modules for Action Description, Scene Annotation, Color Accommodation, Graphical Style Modification, and Acoustic Effect Annotation, utilizing neural networks to enhance media accessibility by providing subtitles, text-to-speech descriptions, color changes, and style modifications, which can be selectively activated during media playback without altering the original content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If captioning is added to older movies and games, then accessibility for hearing impaired persons is improved, but the process is time consuming and labor intensive
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-processes media content during idle periods or offline to generate accessibility features such as captions, color descriptors, and scene annotations. This preliminary action allows the media to be enhanced before playback without adding delay during actual use, resolving the contradiction between improving accessibility and avoiding time consumption during deployment.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses automated AI models and machine learning algorithms to generate accessibility features without requiring manual human intervention for each media file. The automated processing enables the system to serve itself in creating captions, color descriptions, and scene annotations, dramatically reducing the labor-intensive nature of traditional accessibility accommodation while maintaining high reliability.
2Reliability
If color pallets are customized for colorblind users, then accessibility for vision impaired persons is improved, but this is impossible for many video games and movies due to the sheer number of scenes and colors
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts color parameters in real-time during media playback based on detected color blindness types. By modifying hue, saturation, and luminance parameters of the original media content, the system provides accurate color accommodation for various vision impairments without requiring separate customized versions for each scene, thereby managing complexity while improving accessibility reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary processing layer between the original media content and the user display. This intermediary layer analyzes the original color information and transforms it into accessibility-friendly color representations, mediating between the complex original content and the user's visual capabilities without requiring direct modification of the source material.
3Reliability
If accessibility features are added to existing media, then accessibility for disabled persons is improved, but the original content must be altered
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the media processing into separate independent layers: the original media content layer and the accessibility enhancement layer. Accessibility features such as captions, color descriptors, and scene annotations are generated as separate data streams that are overlaid or synchronized with the original content during playback, rather than being permanently embedded into the original file, thus preserving content integrity while improving accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a virtual copy or representation of the media content that includes accessibility features, while the original content remains unchanged. The accessibility-enhanced version is generated through processing and analysis of the original, allowing users to access the copied version with enhancements without modifying or losing the original media file.
Data Source
AI summary
Accommodation for color or visual impairments may be implemented by selective color substitution. A color accommodation module receives an image frame from a host system and generates a color-adapted version of the image frame. The color accommodation module may include a rule based filter that substitutes one or more colors within the image frame with one or more corresponding alternative colors.