Dynamic Visual Media Transition System for Digital Signage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional digital signage systems experience abrupt and inefficient transitions between digital content playlists, leading to confusion for viewers, data loss, and inefficient use of resources due to rigid takeover restrictions, which disrupt user experiences and waste processing resources.
Innovation Solution
A digital-content-transition system dynamically determines content-transition types and times based on metadata and real-time data to smoothly transition between visual media items or collections, employing instantaneous, delayed, interactive, or graphical effect transitions to manage transitions seamlessly and efficiently.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional systems use rigid takeover restrictions when changing between playlists and digital content, then the system maintains simple control logic, but the transitions become abrupt and cause user confusion
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts transition behavior based on real-time conditions. Instead of using fixed rigid takeover restrictions, the system monitors whether content is currently being interacted with and adapts the transition timing accordingly. This allows transitions to be smooth when needed while maintaining simple control logic through automated detection of interaction states.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms by monitoring user interaction with displayed content. When interaction is detected, the system receives feedback and delays the transition until interaction ceases. This feedback loop ensures smooth transitions without requiring complex predetermined control logic for every possible scenario.
2Loss of time
If conventional systems abruptly cutoff digital content during display to transition to new content, then the transition time is reduced, but data loss occurs and user experience deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary detection of user interaction before executing the transition. By checking whether interaction is occurring ahead of time, the system can prepare appropriate transition behavior. This preliminary action prevents abrupt cutoffs that would cause data loss, while still enabling quick transitions when no interaction is detected.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides a cushioning mechanism by delaying transitions when interaction is detected. This cushioning effect prevents the harmful abrupt cutoff of content during active user engagement. The delay acts as a protective measure that preserves content integrity and user experience, while not significantly impacting overall transition time when no interaction occurs.
3Adaptability or versatility
If conventional systems use fixed scheduled playlists, then resource allocation is simple, but the system cannot adapt to real-time user interactions
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service by automatically detecting user interaction states and autonomously adjusting transition timing. No complex external scheduling system is needed - the display device itself monitors its own state and makes real-time decisions. This provides adaptability while keeping the system relatively simple through self-contained automated logic.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the timing parameter of transitions dynamically based on interaction detection. Instead of fixed scheduled times, the transition timing parameter is adjusted in real-time based on whether user interaction is occurring. This simple parameter change enables adaptability without requiring complex scheduling infrastructure.
4Productivity
If conventional systems transition between content without checking interaction status, then the processing speed is high, but user interactions are interrupted and experience is degraded
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies preliminary anti-action by detecting interaction status before executing transitions. This preemptive check prevents the harmful interruption of user interactions. The anti-action (delaying transition) is taken in advance when interaction is detected, preserving user experience reliability while maintaining high transition speed when no interaction occurs.
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AI summary
This disclosure describes a digital-content-transition system that dynamically determines a content-transition type for a visual media transition and converts a display of a digital-content-display device from one visual media item to another visual media item according to the content-transition type. For example, the digital-content-transition system can intelligently determine a type and time of transition from multiple content-transition types and content-transition times for transitioning between visual media items or visual media collections displayed at a digital-content-display device. By intelligently determining a content-transition type and a corresponding content-transition time based on metadata of the visual media items, the digital-content-transition system can transition a display of the digital-content-display device between visual media items or visual media collections according to the content-transition type and content-transition time.