Data Transformation Engine for Visual Content Accessibility

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Solution Overview

Problem

The increasing number of users creating, sharing, and publishing content without design training results in visually unappealing or unconsumable formats, leading to reduced attention and utility of the content.

Innovation Solution

A computing device executes a transformation engine that analyzes data, identifies relationships, applies design variations, and selects visualization models to transform data into consumable content, allowing users to provide feedback for modifications and preferences.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If users without design training create content, then content creation accessibility increases, but visual appeal and consumability deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent creation accessibilityVSAvoidvisual appeal
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an automated transformation engine as an intermediary between raw data and final content output. This engine applies design rules, selects appropriate visualization models, and transforms data into visually appealing formats without requiring user design expertise. The engine mediates between the user's simple data input and the complex design requirements, resolving the contradiction between accessibility and visual quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The transformation engine operates autonomously to enhance content visual appeal. It automatically analyzes data relationships, selects appropriate visualization models, applies design variations, and generates consumable content without human intervention in the design process. This self-service capability allows users to create high-quality content without needing design training.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Ease of operation

If publishers compile information into documents or presentations, then information organization improves, but visual distraction increases and usefulness decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation organizationVSAvoidusefulness
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The transformation engine applies different visualization models and design variations to different portions of data based on their specific characteristics and relationships. Rather than applying a uniform presentation format, the engine analyzes local data properties and tailors the visualization approach accordingly, ensuring that each section is presented in the most effective format for its content type.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The engine dynamically adjusts visualization parameters such as layout, color schemes, animation effects, and information density based on the analyzed data relationships. By changing these parameters adaptively rather than using fixed presentation templates, the system maintains information usefulness while improving visual appeal and reducing distraction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Ease of manufacture

If visual aspects are enhanced in presentations, then aesthetic appeal improves, but consumer attention to underlying data deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaesthetic appealVSAvoidattention to data
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The transformation engine creates dynamic visualizations that adapt to user interaction and data importance. Visual elements are designed to be engaging yet subordinate to the underlying data, with animations and effects that guide attention to key insights rather than distracting from them. The visual aspects are dynamically adjusted based on the data hierarchy and user preferences.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The visualization model acts as an intermediary layer between raw data and user perception. This layer translates data relationships into visually appealing formats that enhance understanding rather than obscure the underlying information. The mediator ensures that aesthetic enhancements serve to clarify and emphasize key data points rather than distract from them.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

4Ease of manufacture

If publishers expend resources to create visually consumable content, then content quality improves, but production time and cost increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent qualityVSAvoidproduction efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The transformation engine provides self-service content creation capabilities that automatically generate high-quality visual content from raw data. By automating the analysis, model selection, and visualization generation processes, the system eliminates the need for publishers to expend resources on manual design work while maintaining high content quality standards.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The engine uses pre-defined visualization models and design templates that can be repeatedly applied to different datasets. These templates represent proven design patterns that ensure quality output without requiring repeated manual design efforts. The system copies and adapts successful visualization patterns rather than creating new designs from scratch each time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS9208216B2Transforming data into consumable content
Publication Date: 2015.12.08 MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
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AI summary

Concepts and technologies are described herein for transforming data into consumable content. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a computing device can execute a transformation engine for transforming data into the consumable content. The computing device can be configured to analyze the data to identify relationships within data elements or other portions of the data. The computing device also can determine a visualization model to apply to the data and to choose a world based upon the determined visualization model. The computing device can obtain rules associated with the selected or chosen world, and can apply the rules to the data to generate the output. In some embodiments, the computing device can be configured to obtain and apply feedback to the output.