Dynamic Video Cover Selection Based on Environment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing electronic devices fail to display video covers that are intuitive to the user's environment, making it difficult for users to understand the content of videos before playback.

Innovation Solution

An information processing method that obtains environment information of a video file in a preview state and switches between different video covers based on pre-set conditions, such as scene and file folder information, to display covers that reflect the current environment and context.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If a single static video cover is displayed, then the device complexity is low, but the user cannot understand the video content intuitively

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevideo content informationVSAvoidcover selection mechanism
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic cover selection by switching between different video covers based on environmental conditions. The system transitions from a static single cover to multiple context-aware covers that adapt to user environment, time, and device state, thereby providing more intuitive video content information without requiring complex manual intervention

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system obtains environment information (scene, time, device state) and uses this feedback to automatically select the most appropriate video cover. This closed-loop feedback mechanism enables the device to adaptively provide relevant video information based on real-time environmental conditions, resolving the contradiction between information completeness and system complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple video covers are displayed based on environment information, then the user experience is improved, but the processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveenvironmental adaptabilityVSAvoidenvironmental detection and processing
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs a unified environmental detection mechanism that serves multiple purposes: determining scene type, identifying time context, and assessing device state. This multi-functional approach enables the system to achieve high environmental adaptability while avoiding the complexity of separate detection systems for each parameter

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

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the display parameter (video cover selection) based on environmental parameter changes. By monitoring environmental parameters and mapping them to appropriate cover selections, the system achieves adaptability without requiring complex processing, simply changing the displayed parameter based on detected environmental conditions

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS11120840B2Information processing method and electronic device
Publication Date: 2021.09.14 LENOVO (BEIJING) LTD
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AI summary

An information processing method comprising: obtaining environment information of a video file in a preview state, where the preview state is a display state before the video file is played; in response to the environment information satisfying a first pre-set condition, indicating the video file by a first cover; and in response to the environment information satisfying a second pre-set condition, indicating the video file by a second cover.