Digital Model Rendering for Consistent Media Element Depiction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Creators of audiovisual media face challenges in ensuring consistent depiction of reused media elements across different content, as existing digitization methods are cumbersome, expensive, and often result in limited access and inconsistent representation due to manual annotation and specific visual fiducials.

Innovation Solution

A system that retrieves digital models of media elements from a database, renders them based on metadata describing characteristics and limits, ensuring consistent depiction across various media, using machine learning and computer vision techniques to generate and modify digital models for insertion into different scenes while respecting digital rights management.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If manual annotation and specific visual fiducials are used for digitization, then digital models can be created, but the process becomes cumbersome and expensive with limited access

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedigitization accuracyVSAvoiddigitization process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates digital copies (digital models) of media elements that can be reused across multiple scenes and media without requiring repeated manual annotation. Once a digital model is created through the established process, it serves as a reusable template that automatically maintains consistency across different content, eliminating the need for cumbersome manual processes in subsequent uses.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The patent performs digitization and creation of digital models in advance, before the media elements are needed in production. By pre-creating comprehensive digital models with all necessary characteristics and variations, the system eliminates the need for time-consuming manual annotation during actual production workflows, making the subsequent reuse process efficient and accessible.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If existing digitization methods are used, then digital models can be created, but access is limited and representation is inconsistent

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverepresentation consistencyVSAvoidaccessibility
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates universal digital models that can be used across multiple different media and scenes. A single digital model serves multiple functions and can be accessed by different users and systems, ensuring consistent representation regardless of where or how the media element is used. This multi-functional approach eliminates limitations on access and ensures reliability across diverse applications.

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

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements feedback mechanisms that monitor and maintain the consistency of digital model representation across different uses. By tracking how digital models are used and comparing them against established standards and original characteristics, the system ensures reliable and consistent representation while allowing broad access to the digital assets.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Productivity

If media elements are reused in different content, then content creation efficiency improves, but consistent depiction becomes difficult to maintain

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent creation efficiencyVSAvoiddepiction consistency
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses digital copies of media elements that preserve all original characteristics and can be perfectly replicated across different content. These digital models maintain exact consistency in appearance, behavior, and properties regardless of how many times they are reused or in what different contexts, eliminating the consistency problems that arise from manual recreation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The patent pre-establishes comprehensive digital models with all necessary variations, transformations, and usage parameters before reuse is needed. By preparing digital assets in advance with complete metadata and characteristic definitions, the system enables efficient reuse while guaranteeing consistent depiction across all applications through automated enforcement of original characteristics.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS12041320B2Consistent generation of media elements across media
Publication Date: 2024.07.16 AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I L P
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AI summary

An example method performed by a processing system includes retrieving a digital model of a media element from a database storing a plurality of media elements, wherein the media element is to be inserted into a scene of an audiovisual media, rendering the media element in the scene of the audiovisual media, based on the digital model of the media element and on metadata associated with the digital model to produce a rendered media element, wherein the metadata describes a characteristic of the media element and a limit on the characteristic, and inserting the rendered media element into the scene of the audiovisual media.