Context-Aware Visual Content Editing Recommendations

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing visual content editing systems on client terminals lack the ability to provide personalized and context-aware editing functions, requiring users to sift through a fixed set of options or large collections, without considering location, real-time events, user preferences, or social network interactions.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that selects visual content editing functions based on client terminal data, including location, velocity, real-time events, user demographics, and social network activity, to provide a tailored list of editing options, such as image filters and overlays, which can be applied with a single click.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a fixed set of editing functions is provided to all users, then the system is simple to implement, but the user experience lacks personalization and context-awareness

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalization of editing functionsVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-processes user data, location information, and contextual data before the user needs editing functions. By analyzing user profiles, social network data, and real-time events in advance, the server prepares personalized editing function recommendations that are ready when the user requests them, thus achieving personalization without adding complexity to the user interface

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

A server acts as an intermediary between the user terminal and the editing functions. The server receives user data and contextual information, processes this information to determine suitable editing functions, and returns personalized recommendations. This intermediary layer handles the complexity of personalization logic centrally, keeping the client terminal simple while delivering adaptive results

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If users are presented with a large collection of editing options, then the system offers comprehensive functionality, but users must spend excessive time browsing and selecting options

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveediting efficiencyVSAvoidtime to select editing function
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and presents only the most relevant editing functions from the complete set of available options. By analyzing user context, location, and preferences, the system filters out unnecessary options and presents a focused subset of 3-7 highly relevant editing functions, dramatically reducing selection time while maintaining access to comprehensive functionality when needed

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides a partial presentation of the full editing function set by showing only the top recommendations (typically 3-7 functions) that are most relevant to the current context. This partial action approach delivers sufficient functionality for most users without requiring them to browse the entire collection, thus improving productivity while minimizing time loss

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

3Adaptability or versatility

If the system provides generic editing functions without context-awareness, then the implementation is straightforward, but the system cannot adapt to location, events, or user preferences

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontext-awarenessVSAvoiddata processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The server implements a universal data processing framework that handles multiple types of input data (user profiles, location information, social network data, real-time events) through a single cohesive system. This multi-functional approach allows the system to adapt to various contexts using the same underlying architecture, achieving context-awareness without proportionally increasing complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts the parameters of editing function recommendations based on changing contextual parameters such as location, time, user preferences, and current events. By monitoring and responding to changes in these parameters, the system achieves adaptability while using efficient algorithms that prevent exponential growth in processing complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentEP4009651B1Methods and systems of providing visual content editing functions
Publication Date: 2025.09.24 SNAP INC
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AI summary

A method of adjusting visual content. The method comprises selecting, on a client terminal, visual content, forwarding a request which includes positional data pertaining to the location of the client terminal to a network node via a network. The network node supplies, in response to the request, a list of a plurality of visual content editing functions selected based on the positional data. The client terminal presents the plurality of visual content editing functions to a user, receiving a selection of at least one member of the list from the user, adjusting the visual content using the at least one member, and outputting the adjusted visual content.