Crowdsourced Q&A Platform with Image Recognition for Contextual Advertising

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current image recognition technologies and advertising platforms struggle to accurately match images to relevant information and content, failing to provide real-time user-generated content analysis for contextual advertising, making it difficult for advertisers to deliver targeted and relevant advertisements.

Innovation Solution

A crowdsourced question and answer platform enhanced with image recognition technology that allows users to search for information through images, enabling real-time content analysis and relevant advertisement delivery by recognizing objects in images, generating conversations, and adding content to these conversations, thereby allowing advertisers to serve targeted ads based on user queries and interests.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If image recognition technology is used to match images to relevant information, then the accuracy of information retrieval is improved, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage matching accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an image processor as an intermediary component that专门 handles image recognition and object identification. This mediator translates complex image data into structured information that can be easily matched with database content, thereby improving matching accuracy while isolating the complexity within a dedicated module rather than distributing it throughout the entire system.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system is divided into distinct functional modules: an image processor for analyzing images and identifying objects, a database for storing information about objects, and a user interface for interactions. This segmentation allows each component to specialize in specific tasks, improving overall image matching accuracy while making the system more manageable and less complex through modular design.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Ease of manufacture

If advertisers use prediction-based advertising structures, then advertising content can be pre-designed, but the relevance to contextual content and real-time user queries deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadvertising content preparationVSAvoidcontextual relevance accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements a feedback mechanism where the image processor continuously analyzes user-submitted images and identifies objects in real-time. This feedback loop provides advertisers with current information about what users are actually searching for and viewing, allowing them to adjust and optimize advertising content based on actual user behavior rather than relying solely on predictions. The system feeds back contextual information from image analysis to the advertising delivery mechanism.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The advertising system transitions from static pre-designed content based on predictions to dynamic content that adapts in real-time based on image analysis results. The system can dynamically generate or select advertising content that is highly relevant to the specific object or context the user is currently viewing, making the advertising both easier to prepare (through automated generation) and more contextually accurate.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Productivity

If a crowdsourced question and answer platform is built, then user-generated content and real-time analysis are improved, but the device complexity and operational overhead increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent generation speedVSAvoidplatform complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The platform enables users to automatically contribute content by submitting images through the user interface. The image processor automatically analyzes these images, identifies objects, and generates relevant information without requiring manual curation or complex moderation systems. Users essentially serve themselves by providing images, and the system automatically transforms them into structured Q&A content, improving productivity while keeping operational complexity manageable through automation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system merges multiple functions into an integrated workflow: image submission, automatic image analysis, object identification, content generation, and database storage all occur in a unified process. This consolidation improves productivity by eliminating manual steps between these functions while managing complexity through a streamlined, end-to-end automated pipeline rather than separate manual processes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS10346876B2Image recognition enhanced crowdsourced question and answer platform
Publication Date: 2019.07.09 RICOH CO LTD
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AI summary

A crowdsourced question and answer platform enhanced with image recognition technology is disclosed. The platform generates and organizes conversations surrounding an object recognized from an image uploaded by a user. Generating and organizing conversations includes receiving an image a from a user, analyzing the image to recognize an object in the image, receiving a comment related to the recognized object in the image from the user, generating content related to the recognized object in the image based on the received comment and adding the content related to the recognized object in the image to a conversation corresponding to the recognized object in the image.