Image Capture Modifiers for Messaging Media Organization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing messaging systems face challenges in providing an effective graphical user interface for sharing large amounts of media content between users, particularly in facilitating the exchange and visualization of media items across networks.

Innovation Solution

The system enables users to generate image capture modifiers, such as digital lenses, based on saved media content items, which can be applied to image or video streams, allowing for the creation of new media content items that can be directly shared with others or broadcasted as stories, utilizing a messaging server system with integrated image processing and social network functionalities.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If users share large amounts of media content items through messaging systems, then the visual communication capability is improved, but the complexity of the graphical user interface increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvevisual communication capabilityVSAvoidgraphical user interface complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments media content management by organizing items into collections and galleries with specific themes or time periods. The interface divides media sharing into discrete, manageable units (individual items, collections, galleries) that users can select and share independently, reducing the perceived complexity of handling large media volumes.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces intermediate organizational structures (collections and galleries) that act as mediators between individual media items and the sharing interface. These intermediaries provide a structured way to manage and present media content, simplifying the user interaction model while enabling versatile visual communication.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Quantity of substance

If users accumulate large amounts of media content over time, then the richness of visual communication is improved, but the difficulty of managing and organizing content increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemedia content volumeVSAvoidcontent management ease

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements preliminary organization of media content into collections and galleries during the content creation and storage phase. By pre-categorizing media items into thematic collections or chronological galleries before sharing, the system automates the management burden, allowing users to easily select and share organized content without manually managing large unstructured media libraries.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent enables media content to be automatically organized into collections and galleries based on metadata, timestamps, or user-defined criteria. This self-organizing capability reduces manual management effort, allowing the system to automatically structure large volumes of media content while maintaining user control over the organization logic.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Adaptability or versatility

If the messaging system provides comprehensive media sharing capabilities, then the functionality is improved, but the processing and storage requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemedia sharing functionalityVSAvoidprocessing and storage resources

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments media content delivery by organizing it into hierarchical structures (individual items within collections within galleries). This segmentation allows the system to process and transmit only the specific portions of media content that users need to share, rather than handling entire media libraries, thereby reducing processing and storage requirements while maintaining comprehensive sharing capabilities.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent enables users to share partial collections or galleries rather than requiring complete media sets. Users can select specific items or subsets of organized content for sharing, allowing the system to process and transmit only the necessary portion of media content, reducing resource requirements while maintaining versatile sharing functionality.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS11237697B1System and method of generating image capture modifiers based on electronic media content items

Publication Date: 2022.02.01 SNAP INC

AI summary

Method of generating image capture modifiers based on media content items starts with a server system receiving a request to access first media content item included in a storage from a first client device in communication with the server system over a network. The server system causes the first media content item and a modifier generator icon to be displayed on a user interface of the first client device. The server system receives a selection of the modifier generator icon on the user interface of the first client device and generates a first image capture modifier based on the first media content item. The server system causes to be displayed on the user interface of the first client device a field of view of an image capture device and image modifier icons including a first image modifier icon associated with the first image capture modifier. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.