Content Update Suggestions for Image Licensing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional content sharing services face challenges as images become stale due to changing customer tastes, leading to decreased relevance and efficiency in search results, affecting creative professionals and customers.

Innovation Solution

Implementing content update and suggestion techniques that analyze licensed images to identify shared characteristics, such as filters, themes, and metadata, to guide creative professionals in updating their content to match current market demands, thereby increasing the likelihood of licensing and user interest.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If creative professionals upload hundreds and thousands of images to content sharing services, then the likelihood of images being licensed increases initially, but over time the images become stale and no longer desired by customers as tastes change

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage upload volumeVSAvoidimage relevance over time
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of licensed images to identify emerging trends and characteristics before users upload new content. By proactively detecting what characteristics are currently popular in licensed images, the system enables creative professionals to update their portfolios in advance, preventing images from becoming stale rather than waiting for them to lose relevance

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system establishes a feedback loop where licensed image characteristics are continuously monitored and analyzed, then this information is fed back to guide content updates. The suggestions generated from licensed image analysis create a closed-loop system where market response (licensing patterns) directly informs content creation strategies, ensuring ongoing relevance

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Stability of the object's composition

If images are not updated to match changing customer tastes, then the existing image library maintains stability, but search results become cluttered and less relevant to current customer preferences

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage library stabilityVSAvoidsearch result relevance
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts image characteristics based on analyzed trends from licensed images. Rather than maintaining static image properties, the system identifies changing parameters in successful licensed images (such as color schemes, composition styles, subject matter) and uses these parameter changes to guide updates, ensuring search results remain relevant while maintaining library stability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The image library transitions from a static collection to a dynamic system that continuously adapts. The system monitors licensing patterns over time and enables progressive updates, allowing the image library to evolve organically while maintaining stability. This dynamic approach ensures search results reflect current customer preferences without requiring complete library replacement

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Adaptability or versatility

If suggestions are generated based on characteristics of licensed images, then creative professionals can update content to match market demands, but the system requires analysis and processing of multiple licensed images to identify shared characteristics

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent adaptability to market trendsVSAvoidimage analysis processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Instead of complex analysis of every licensed image, the system identifies and copies successful characteristics from licensed images to guide suggestions. By extracting key characteristics (such as dominant colors, composition patterns, subject categories) from licensed images and using these as templates for suggestions, the system reduces processing complexity while maintaining adaptability to market trends

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The system discards the need for exhaustive analysis of all image attributes by focusing only on the characteristics that are actually licensed. By recovering and utilizing only the relevant shared characteristics from licensed images (ignoring irrelevant details), the system achieves adaptability with reduced processing complexity, concentrating computational resources on meaningful patterns

Inventive Principle:
Principle #34Discarding and recovering

Data Source

PatentUS9818044B2Content update suggestions
Publication Date: 2017.11.14 ADOBE INC
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AI summary

Content update and suggestion techniques are described. In one or more implementations, techniques are implemented to generate suggestions that are usable to guide creative professionals in updating content such as images, video, sound, multimedia, and so forth. A variety of techniques are usable to generate suggestions for the content professionals. In one example, suggestions are based on shared characteristics of images licensed by users of a content sharing service, e.g., licensed by the users. In another example, suggestions are based on metadata of the images licensed by the users, the metadata describing characteristics of how the images are created. These suggestions are then used to guide transformation of a user's image such that the image exhibits these characteristics and thus has an increased likelihood of being desired for licensing by customers of the service.