Automated High-Quality Digital Content Discovery System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional systems are ineffective in discovering new, high-quality digital content and artists due to reliance on low-level features and lack of mechanisms for identifying content without social indicators, leading to 'cold start' issues where newly uploaded content is undiscovered.

Innovation Solution

The system analyzes raw image data using machine learning quality models to identify high-quality content and artists based on features and descriptors, enabling real-time or near-real-time identification during image capture and promoting such content through platforms like Flickr and Instagram.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If conventional systems rely on low-level features and social indicators to discover content, then content with established social presence can be identified, but new content without social indicators cannot be discovered (cold start problem)

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent quality identification accuracyVSAvoidability to discover new content without social indicators
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of raw image data using machine learning quality models before social indicators are established. By evaluating intrinsic image qualities (composition, lighting, focus, aesthetics) at the time of upload, the system proactively identifies high-quality new content before it accumulates social signals, thereby solving the cold start problem where new content remains undiscovered due to lack of social presence

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If the system analyzes raw image data using machine learning models to identify high-quality content, then new content can be discovered without social indicators, but the computational complexity and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveability to identify content without social indicatorsVSAvoidsystem complexity for raw data analysis
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system replaces complex manual curation processes and traditional social-indicator-based filtering with automated machine learning quality models. These models analyze raw image data (pixel-level features, compositional elements, lighting patterns, focus quality) to objectively assess content quality, substituting human expert judgment and simple social metric filtering with intelligent automated analysis that handles complexity internally while providing clean quality assessments

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Adaptability or versatility

If the system promotes content based on intrinsic quality rather than social indicators, then new talented creators can be discovered, but the reliance on social data for quality assessment is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveability to promote new creators and contentVSAvoidreduced utilization of social indicator data
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary quality assessment based on intrinsic image attributes before social indicators accumulate. By evaluating composition, lighting, color harmony, focus, and aesthetic qualities at upload time, the system establishes an initial quality baseline that enables promotion of new content and creators independent of social signals, allowing talented newcomers to be discovered based on actual content merit rather than social network effects

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the evaluation parameters from social metrics (likes, shares, follower count) to intrinsic image quality parameters (compositional balance, lighting quality, color harmony, focus accuracy, aesthetic appeal). This parameter transformation enables the system to assess and promote content based on its inherent qualities rather than external social validation, fundamentally shifting the discovery mechanism to favor new and untapped content

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS10867221B2Computerized method and system for automated determination of high quality digital content
Publication Date: 2020.12.15 VERIZON PATENT & LICENSING INC
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AI summary

Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in a content generating, hosting and/or providing system supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods provide systems and methods for automatic discovery of high quality digital content. According to embodiments, the present disclosure describes improved computer system and methods directed to analyzing raw image data, such as features and descriptors of images in order to identify a high quality image(s). Such images can be identified from a database of images, and such images can be identified in real-time, or near real-time during the capture of an image(s) by a camera.