Personalized E-Book Content Reconfiguration via Keyword Mapping

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional electronic book content is standardized and does not accommodate the diverse tastes of users, lacking the ability to reconfigure visual, audible, olfactory, and tactile effects to suit individual preferences.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus that utilize sensors and a database to automatically set attributes for objects within electronic book content based on associated text, providing visual, audible, and tactile effects through a portable device, allowing users to personalize their content by selecting keywords and mapping attributes to objects.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If conventional standardized electronic book content format is used, then manufacturing and distribution is simplified, but user customization and personalization capability is lost

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestandardization of electronic book contentVSAvoiduser taste adaptation

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments electronic book content into standardized base elements (text, images, objects) that can be independently manipulated. Each object is assigned attributes that can be individually modified without changing the overall content structure, enabling personalization while maintaining manufacturing efficiency.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically reconfigures electronic book content by allowing users to modify object attributes (position, size, visual effects, audible effects, tactile effects) in real-time. The standardized content structure remains fixed, but the displayed attributes are dynamically adjusted to suit user preferences.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Adaptability or versatility

If manual customization of each object attribute is allowed, then user personalization capability is enhanced, but operation complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent personalizationVSAvoiduser operation simplicity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically performs attribute assignment and content reconfiguration based on user selections. When users select objects or keywords, the system self-services by automatically applying appropriate attributes and effects without requiring manual configuration of each parameter, simplifying the personalization process.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements parameter changes through a simplified interface where users select from predefined attribute options rather than manually adjusting individual parameters. The system handles the complex parameter modifications internally, transforming simple user selections into comprehensive attribute changes across multiple dimensions (visual, audible, tactile).

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS8942414B2Method and apparatus for making personalized contents

Publication Date: 2015.01.27 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

AI summary

A method for making personalized content by providing attributes to an object included in the electronic book content to reconfigure the electronic book content suited to tastes of a user and an apparatus thereof by executing electronic book content, extracting text information of the executed electronic book content, extracting keywords registered in an effect database from the extracted text information, providing a list of the extracted keywords when selection of a specific objected included in the electronic book content, and providing an attribute mapped to a keyword selected from the keyword list to the selected object.