Location-Aware Composition Effect Tutorials via Metadata Structures

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional digital content editing systems lack accuracy, efficiency, and flexibility in guiding users through the process of creating and editing digital content, as they treat compositions as monolithic entities, fail to provide granular instructions for composition effects, and are inflexible in adapting tutorials to user-specific projects, leading to user frustration and low retention rates.

Innovation Solution

The system generates and provides end-to-end location-aware guided tutorials by mapping composition effects with metadata structures, allowing users to select specific locations within a digital content item to access tutorials for implementing composition effects, and utilizes a metadata composite structure to identify and generate tutorials for precise composition effects, including location information, identifiers, and attributes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If conventional digital content editing systems provide step-by-step tutorials for recreating digital images from start to finish, then users can learn the complete creation process, but the systems fail to provide granular instructions for specific composition effects, reducing accuracy and usefulness

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetutorial granularityVSAvoidsystem structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the monolithic tutorial into granular composition effect-specific instructions by creating a metadata composite structure that breaks down digital content into individual composition effects. Each composition effect is represented as a separate node in the metadata structure, allowing users to access tutorials for specific effects rather than watching entire creation processes from scratch.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Productivity

If conventional systems require users to watch complete video tutorials for digital image creation, then users receive comprehensive instructions, but users spend excessive time sifting through tutorials to find relevant sections, reducing efficiency

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetutorial search efficiencyVSAvoidtime to find relevant tutorial
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts specific composition effect information from complete tutorials by creating a metadata composite structure that isolates individual composition effects. This allows the system to present only the relevant composition effect tutorial to users based on their selection, eliminating the need to sift through unrelated tutorial content.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Adaptability or versatility

If conventional systems illustrate generating already-created digital content items from start to finish, then users can see the complete process, but the systems cannot flexibly generate tutorials adapted to user's own projects, reducing adaptability

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetutorial customizationVSAvoidmetadata structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by creating location-aware tutorials that are specific to selected locations within digital content. The metadata composite structure enables the system to identify composition effects at specific locations and generate tutorials tailored to those local contexts, allowing users to learn about composition effects in the context of their own projects rather than generic examples.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

4Measurement precision

If conventional systems treat compositions as monolithic entities, then the system structure remains simple, but the systems fail to provide detailed instructions for individual composition effects, reducing accuracy and user understanding

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecomposition effect identificationVSAvoidmetadata composite structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the monolithic composition into individual composition effects represented as separate nodes in a metadata composite structure. This segmentation enables precise identification and instruction for each composition effect while maintaining an organized hierarchical structure that manages complexity through systematic arrangement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS10685470B2Generating and providing composition effect tutorials for creating and editing digital content
Publication Date: 2020.06.16 ADOBE INC
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AI summary

The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating and providing composition effect tutorials for creating and editing digital content based on a metadata composite structure. For example, the disclosed systems can generate and/or access a metadata composite structure that includes nodes corresponding to composition effects applied to a digital content item, where a given node can include location information indicating where a composition effect is applied relative to a digital content item. The disclosed systems can further generate a tutorial to guide a user to implement a selected composition effect by identifying composition effects of nodes that correspond to a location selected within a composition interface and presenting instructions for a particular composition effect.