Display Modification Data for User Personalization and Rendering Stability

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Solution Overview

Problem

The MPEG-H MMT-CI standard lacks user personalization options for media content rendering, and existing solutions fail to effectively prevent unwanted modifications to media content display, leading to potential disruptions in rendering.

Innovation Solution

The introduction of display modification data, including modification lock parameters, lock to view parameters, and display visibility parameters, which allow users to modify the visual configuration of display regions and sub-regions while enforcing constraints to prevent unwanted changes, ensuring controlled user interaction with media content display.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If users are allowed to edit display configuration freely, then user personalization capability is improved, but rendering stability deteriorates due to potential disruptions

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser personalization capabilityVSAvoidrendering stability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces modification lock parameters that can be set to different states (locked/unlocked) to control user editing capabilities. This parameter-based control allows the system to switch between allowing user personalization and maintaining rendering stability, resolving the contradiction by making the system adaptable to different operational requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The display configuration system dynamically adjusts its state based on the modification lock parameter. When locked, user edits are prevented to maintain stability; when unlocked, user personalization is enabled. This dynamic behavior allows the system to adapt between the two opposing requirements as needed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Reliability

If modification constraints are imposed on display configuration, then rendering stability is improved, but user personalization capability deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverendering stabilityVSAvoiduser personalization capability
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The modification lock parameter serves as a control mechanism that can be changed between locked and unlocked states. When locked, it enforces modification constraints to ensure rendering stability; when unlocked, it removes constraints to enable user personalization, thus resolving the contradiction through parameter-based control.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically switches between constrained and unconstrained modes based on the modification lock parameter state. This allows the system to provide rendering stability when needed while still enabling user personalization when appropriate, resolving the contradiction through dynamic adaptability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Ease of operation

If complete user editing freedom is provided, then ease of operation is improved, but content integrity deteriorates due to unwanted modifications

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser editing freedomVSAvoidcontent integrity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The modification lock parameter provides a simple binary state change that controls user editing freedom. When unlocked, users have complete editing freedom for ease of operation; when locked, content integrity is protected by preventing unwanted modifications. This parameter-based approach resolves the contradiction by making the system adaptable to different operational needs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts its permissiveness based on the modification lock parameter, allowing complete user freedom when unlocked while protecting content integrity when locked. This dynamic behavior resolves the contradiction between ease of operation and content integrity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

4Adaptability or versatility

If no modification constraints are applied, then user personalization flexibility is improved, but display configuration reliability deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser personalization flexibilityVSAvoiddisplay configuration reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The modification lock parameter enables the system to switch between flexible and reliable states. When unlocked, user personalization flexibility is maximized; when locked, display configuration reliability is ensured by preventing modifications. This parameter-based control resolves the contradiction by allowing the system to adapt to different operational requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts its flexibility based on the modification lock parameter state, providing maximum personalization flexibility when unlocked while ensuring configuration reliability when locked. This dynamic adaptability resolves the contradiction between flexibility and reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentEP3061240B1Method and apparatus for transmission and reception of media data
Publication Date: 2020.09.09 INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS SAS
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AI summary

A method of transmitting media data and display composition data for rendering the media data on a display region wherein the display composition data defines the spatial and/or temporal relationship between one or more media entities of the media data, the display region being composed of one or more display sub-regions the method including transmitting display modification data, for a respective display region and/or a respective display sub-region, the display modification data indicating how the visual configuration of the respective display region or display sub-region may be modified by a user.