Dynamic Content Variation via Environmental Sensor Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Pre-generated content, such as movies and TV shows, lacks interactivity and fails to adapt to a user's environment, limiting the immersive viewing experience as it cannot dynamically respond to environmental changes or user interactions.
Innovation Solution
A system that uses sensor devices to collect environmental data like brightness, color, and proximity, and a processor to identify and apply secondary effects to pre-generated content using matching algorithms, allowing the content to adapt and respond to the user's environment in real-time.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If pre-generated content is made static and non-interactive, then manufacturing and distribution are simplified, but adaptability to user environment deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-generating content with embedded placeholders for environmental parameters before distribution. The content is prepared in advance with structural readiness to accept environmental data, allowing static distribution infrastructure while enabling dynamic environmental adaptation at playback without requiring complex real-time generation systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements parameter changes by dynamically substituting environmental parameters (lighting conditions, spatial acoustics, ambient temperature) into pre-generated content placeholders. This allows the same base content to adapt to different environmental conditions through parameter substitution rather than complete regeneration, maintaining manufacturing simplicity while achieving environmental versatility.
2Adaptability or versatility
If pre-generated content is made dynamic and interactive, then adaptability to user environment improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies segmentation by dividing content into modular components with designated placeholders for environmental parameters. Environmental data collection, processing, and content modification are segmented into separate functional modules, allowing independent optimization and reducing overall system complexity while maintaining adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses an intermediary processing layer that collects environmental data, transforms it into appropriate parameters, and substitutes it into content placeholders. This intermediary layer abstracts the complexity of environmental adaptation, shielding the core content delivery system from complex real-time processing requirements while achieving dynamic adaptation.
3Adaptability or versatility
If environmental sensors and processing systems are added to pre-generated content systems, then immersive experience improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by designing a standardized environmental parameter collection and substitution system that can work with various types of pre-generated content across different platforms. The same sensor suite and processing architecture serve multiple content types and delivery scenarios, reducing per-application complexity while enhancing immersive capabilities across the board.
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AI summary
The present disclosure describes systems and methods directed to updating pre-generated content by applying secondary effects associated with detected and/or collected environmental data corresponding to a display environment. In operation, a sensor device detects environmental data corresponding to a display environment. A computing device may identify a secondary effect corresponding to the detected environmental data. The secondary effect may be applied to pre-generated content to update the content, and the updated pre-generated content may be displayed on a display. Accordingly, systems and methods described herein enable an improved immersive viewing experience by incorporating features of a user's environment into pre-generated content.