Content Generation Engine for Media Diversity via Plot Templates

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users often capture non-diverse content due to lack of guidance, leading to insufficient media items for generating new content, as they tend to favor specific types, environments, or lighting conditions, resulting in incomplete media collections for synthesizing content items.

Innovation Solution

A device with a content generation engine that determines a plot template and displays notifications to capture specific media items based on conditional triggers, guiding users on what, when, and how to capture content, ensuring diversity and completeness for populating the template.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If users capture content without guidance, then capturing process is simple and quick, but content diversity and completeness deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecapturing process simplicityVSAvoidcontent diversity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically generates plot templates and identifies required media content items without requiring users to manually plan their content collection. The device self-services by determining what content is needed based on the selected plot template and comparing it with existing content in the library.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides feedback to users by displaying notifications that indicate what media content items are missing or needed to complete a plot template. This feedback loop guides users on what to capture next, improving content diversity while maintaining operational simplicity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Productivity

If users rely on existing content items, then content creation is faster, but content completeness deteriorates due to user bias and forgetting

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent creation speedVSAvoidmedia content completeness
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis by comparing required content items from plot templates against existing content in the library before content creation begins. This allows the system to identify gaps in advance and prompt users to capture missing content, ensuring completeness while maintaining productivity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The plot template acts as an intermediary between the user's content creation goals and the actual content collection process. It mediates by specifying what content is needed, bridging the gap between desired content completeness and actual user capture behavior.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Quantity of substance

If the system provides detailed capture guidance, then content completeness improves, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemedia content completenessVSAvoidsystem structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the content collection process into discrete, manageable units by identifying specific media content items needed for each plot template. Rather than overwhelming users with complex requirements, it breaks down the needs into individual captureable items that can be addressed separately.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically changes parameters such as the plot template selection, required content items, and guidance notifications based on what already exists in the content library. This adaptability allows the system to provide detailed guidance only when necessary, reducing perceived complexity while maintaining completeness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS12041338B1Personalized content creation
Publication Date: 2024.07.16 APPLE INC
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AI summary

Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for capturing a new media content item. In various implementations, a device includes a display, one or more processors and a non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes determining a plot template for generating a media content item based on other media content items that are distributed temporally. In some implementations, the plot template is defined by a set of one or more conditional triggers for capturing the other media content items. In some implementations, the method includes determining that a condition associated with a first conditional trigger of the set of one or more conditional triggers is satisfied. In some implementations, the method includes in response to the condition associated with the first conditional trigger being satisfied, displaying, on the display, a notification to capture a new media content item for populating the plot template.