Content Layout Optimization for Clutter-Free Design Features

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems face challenges in maintaining layout integrity when users perform operations on design features, leading to visual clutter and undesirable changes such as misalignment or overlap of objects.

Innovation Solution

An AI-assisted content creation system uses an optimization algorithm with a cost function to analyze design features within a canvas, applying rules to modify and generate layout recommendations that minimize visual clutter by adjusting size, position, and orientation of design elements.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If design features are modified manually to adjust layout, then layout customization is improved, but visual clutter and misalignment increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvelayout customizationVSAvoidlayout alignment

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system continuously monitors layout parameters and automatically adjusts design features when misalignment or overlap is detected, creating a closed-loop control system that maintains layout integrity while allowing user customization

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The layout system performs self-adjustment by automatically detecting and correcting alignment issues and overlaps without requiring manual user intervention, thereby maintaining precision while preserving customization flexibility

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Illumination intensity

If object size is increased to improve visibility, then object prominence is improved, but overlap with other objects increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveobject visibilityVSAvoidobject overlap

Core Design Contradiction:

Illumination intensityVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts object sizes based on real-time spatial relationships and layout constraints, allowing objects to be enlarged for visibility while automatically preventing overlaps through continuous parameter optimization

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes multiple parameters simultaneously (object size, position, orientation) to achieve the desired visibility while maintaining proper spacing and avoiding overlaps through coordinated parameter adjustment

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

3Adaptability or versatility

If layout modifications are made frequently to improve adaptability, then layout flexibility is improved, but layout stability deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvelayout flexibilityVSAvoidlayout stability

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-establishes layout constraints, design rules, and spatial relationships that automatically guide subsequent modifications, allowing flexible changes while maintaining overall layout stability through predefined structural frameworks

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS12361615B2Content layout systems and processes

Publication Date: 2025.07.15 MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC

AI summary

A data processing system is implemented for receiving an image of a canvas, and detecting design features within the canvas by analyzing the image. The data processing system is implemented for determining an execution of a command by comparing the image to a current image of the canvas, and modifying the design features within the canvas to generate layouts in response to determining the execution of the command. Further, the data processing system is implemented for determining parameters of the modified design features, and determining a value for each layout by applying rules to the parameters of the modified design features. In addition, the data processing system is implemented for displaying the layouts based on the determined value for each layout to a user.