Cross-Domain Content Blending for Visually Consistent Components

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Solution Overview

Problem

The integration of digital components from different domains into electronic documents often results in aesthetically unappealing and disjointed presentations due to visual appearance mismatches, which can negatively impact user experience and resource utilization.

Innovation Solution

A multi-phase content blending technique that includes an offline phase to generate sets of modifications for digital components based on visual characteristics of the electronic document and an online phase to apply these modifications in real-time, ensuring seamless integration within strict time constraints.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If digital components from different domains are integrated into electronic documents, then content diversity and information richness are improved, but visual consistency and aesthetic quality deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent diversityVSAvoidvisual consistency
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by analyzing visual characteristics (colors, fonts, styles) of the host electronic document and applying targeted modifications only to the integrated digital component's text and images. This ensures the component adapts locally to match the surrounding content's visual properties, achieving visual consistency while maintaining content diversity from different domains.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes visual parameters (color, font type, font size, style) of the integrated digital component to match the host document's characteristics. By modifying these parameters, the system maintains visual consistency across diverse content sources while preserving the informational value of each domain.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Manufacturing precision

If visual modifications are applied to digital components in real-time, then visual consistency is improved, but processing time and computational resources worsen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevisual consistencyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary analysis of the host electronic document's visual characteristics before integrating the digital component. By pre-determining the visual properties (colors, fonts, styles) of the host document, the system can quickly apply appropriate modifications to the component without extensive real-time processing, thus reducing processing time while maintaining visual consistency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent segments the visual modification process into distinct phases: analyzing host document characteristics, identifying component elements requiring modification, and applying specific visual changes. This segmentation allows for efficient processing by focusing computational resources on only the necessary modifications rather than reprocessing entire components.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Productivity

If strict time constraints are imposed on content integration, then resource utilization is improved, but modification quality and blending seamlessness worsen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresource utilizationVSAvoidmodification quality
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary analysis of visual characteristics and pre-determines modification strategies before the actual integration occurs. This advance preparation enables the system to execute modifications quickly within strict time constraints while maintaining high modification quality, as the complex analysis work is completed beforehand.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system automatically analyzes visual characteristics and applies appropriate modifications without requiring manual intervention or extensive processing time. The automated visual analysis and modification application enable high-quality blending to occur rapidly, optimizing resource utilization while maintaining modification quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentEP4420087B1Cross-domain content blending
Publication Date: 2026.03.25 GOOGLE LLC
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AI summary

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for blending content from different domains. A method includes obtaining, from a given content provider, a set of text and a set of images that are designated for combination to create a digital component. A saliency model is applied to an electronic document to identify salient areas in the electronic document. A set of modifications that do not result in the salient areas in the electronic document being overlapped are constructed. Visual characteristics of the electronic document are determined. A request for content to integrate into the electronic document that is provided by a different domain than the digital component is received. Visual modifications are made to the digital component based on (i) the constructed set of modifications and (ii) the determined visual characteristics of the electronic document. The modified digital component is served.