Display Control System for Automatic Text Highlighting

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing display control systems for text contents require users to manually input search words to find interesting parts, which is not user-friendly.

Innovation Solution

A display control system that acquires user characteristics information using a learning model to automatically select and highlight partial text contents from text contents without requiring user input, enhancing user-friendliness by making relevant content easily distinguishable.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If text contents are proposed to user based on browsing history and attribute matching, then text contents likely to interest the user can be recommended, but the user is required to manually search for interesting parts which reduces user-friendliness

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent recommendation accuracyVSAvoiduser-friendliness
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically identifies and highlights partial text contents that match user characteristics without requiring manual user input. The processor acquires user characteristics information, automatically selects relevant partial text contents from displayed text, and highlights them, enabling the system to serve itself rather than requiring user intervention for search operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary identification and highlighting of relevant text portions before the user needs to search for them. By pre-processing the text contents to identify and mark relevant sections based on user characteristics, the system prepares the information in advance, eliminating the need for subsequent manual search efforts.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If manual search input is required from users, then users can search for specific content, but users experience hassle and time consumption in finding interesting content

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesearch accuracyVSAvoidtime to find content
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-identifies and highlights relevant partial text contents based on user characteristics before the user initiates any search action. This preliminary processing eliminates the time users would otherwise spend formulating and executing search queries, while maintaining high precision through automated relevance matching.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system extracts and highlights only the relevant partial text contents that match user characteristics from the full text, separating the useful information from the rest. This extraction process delivers precise results directly without requiring users to sift through irrelevant content or perform additional search operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Ease of operation

If automatic highlighting of partial text contents is implemented, then user-friendliness is improved, but the system requires acquisition and processing of user characteristics information

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser-friendlinessVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The processor performs multiple functions: it acquires user characteristics information, identifies relevant partial text contents, and highlights them. By consolidating these functions into a single processing unit, the system achieves automatic highlighting and improved user-friendliness without proportionally increasing overall system complexity.

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

Data Source

PatentUS20240211776A1Display control system, display control method, and information storage medium
Publication Date: 2024.06.27 RAKUTEN GROUP INC
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AI summary

Provided is a display control system including at least one processor, the at least one processor being configured to: acquire user characteristics information about characteristics of a user; select, based on the user characteristics information, from among text contents which are contents including a letter, partial text contents which are a part of the text contents, without requiring text input from the user; and display the text contents on a display in a manner that makes the partial text contents distinguishable.