Dynamic Web Conference Content Adjustment for Viewer Accessibility

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Solution Overview

Problem

Participants in web conferences often face difficulties in viewing and understanding shared content due to poor image resolution, viewer disabilities, hardware limitations, and cluttered content, leading to hindered perception and accessibility.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for dynamically adjusting shared content in web conferences by determining conditions for adjustment based on web conference data, using techniques such as keyword recognition, resolution enhancement, and critical area identification, and applying adjustments like color modification, overlaying, or generating adjusted content.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If shared content is adjusted dynamically based on conditions, then clarity and accessibility of content is improved, but system complexity and processing overhead increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent accessibilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically monitors web conference data, detects conditions requiring adjustment, and applies modifications without manual intervention. The system serves itself by self-diagnosing when content needs adjustment and self-correcting by applying the appropriate modifications, thereby improving accessibility while maintaining automated operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors web conference data including participant feedback, content characteristics, and environmental conditions. This feedback loop enables the system to detect when adjustments are needed and to evaluate the effectiveness of applied modifications, dynamically adapting to maintain optimal content accessibility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Manufacturing precision

If adjustments are applied to shared content, then viewing clarity is enhanced, but processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent clarityVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts content based on real-time conditions rather than applying static modifications. Adjustments are applied adaptively, changing parameters such as color schemes, contrast levels, or formatting based on current web conference data, participant needs, and content characteristics, thereby optimizing clarity while managing processing efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system modifies content by changing parameters such as color brightness, contrast ratios, text size, or formatting properties rather than completely regenerating content. These parameter adjustments enhance viewing clarity for participants with different abilities while requiring less computational processing compared to full content recreation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Measurement precision

If continuous monitoring of web conference data is performed, then adjustment accuracy is improved, but energy consumption and computational load increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecondition detection accuracyVSAvoidenergy consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs periodic monitoring of web conference data at strategically determined intervals rather than continuous real-time analysis. The monitoring frequency is adjusted based on the current state of the conference, content being shared, and detected changes, enabling accurate condition detection while reducing unnecessary processing and energy consumption during stable periods.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #19Periodic action

Data Source

PatentUS12418572B2Dynamic adjustment of shared content within web conferences
Publication Date: 2025.09.16 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to dynamic adjustment of shared content within web conferences. Web conference data associated with a web conference can be received. A determination can be made that a condition is met for adjusting shared content that is currently being shared within the web conference. An adjustment to make to the shared content that is currently being shared within the web conference can be determined. The shared content can be adjusted based on the determination to generate adjusted shared content. The adjusted shared content can be displayed within the web conference.