Consistent Digital Asset Display via Container Metadata
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional collaboration systems face issues with inconsistent display of digital assets across different devices due to varying aspect ratios and resolutions, leading to reduced collaboration quality and impaired user participation.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method that uses container metadata to ensure consistent placement and size of digital assets across multiple displays, maintaining aspect ratio and content integrity through percentage-based calculations and synchronized rendering engines.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If each device renders digital assets based on its own display characteristics (aspect ratio and resolution), then the display adapts to the specific device, but the appearance of digital assets becomes inconsistent across different displays
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the parameter representation from absolute pixel dimensions to relative percentage-based coordinates and dimensions. Container metadata stores asset positions and sizes as percentages of the workspace, allowing the same metadata to correctly represent asset placement on displays with different resolutions and aspect ratios while maintaining visual consistency.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces container metadata as an intermediary layer between the digital assets and the display devices. This metadata acts as a translation mechanism that converts asset placement information into display-independent coordinates, which are then rendered appropriately on each device based on its characteristics.
2Ease of operation
If the rendering engine adapts reflowable content based on display size and resolution, then the content fits the display, but the amount of visible content varies across displays
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the rendering approach by using percentage-based container metadata to control the size and position of digital assets. This ensures that assets maintain their relative proportions and visible content amount across different display resolutions, preventing information loss while still adapting to different screen sizes.
3Area of stationary object
If digital assets are displayed with stretched appearance on wide displays, then the assets fill the display area, but the aspect ratio of the assets is distorted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses percentage-based positioning and sizing in container metadata to preserve the original aspect ratio of digital assets. By defining asset dimensions as percentages rather than fixed pixel values, the system maintains the correct shape while allowing assets to scale proportionally to fill different display areas.
Data Source
AI summary
In one embodiment of the present invention, a collaboration engine is configured to display shared digital assets consistently across displays. The collaboration engine receives container metadata generated based on a first location and first size of a digital asset within a first scaled workspace displayed on a first display. In response, the collaboration engine computes a second location and second size of the digital asset based on the container metadata and the size of a second scaled workspace. Finally, the collaboration engine configures the second device to display the digital asset within the second scaled workspace based on the second location and the second size. Notably, the container metadata correlates to the appearance of the digital asset on the first display, and the appearance of the digital asset on the second display correlates to the container metadata. Consequently, the appearance of the digital asset is consistent across the displays.