Personalized Image Selection Using User Perspective Modeling

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems fail to accurately predict which images a user will find meaningful due to their inability to model the complex cognitive processes of human perception, neglecting the influence of context and unconscious motivations, and lack a feedback loop for continuous improvement.

Innovation Solution

A system that learns an individual's perspective through a combination of explicit and implicit methods, using a personalized AI model to analyze images based on subjective and objective dimensions, and incorporates a feedback loop for continuous learning and improvement, employing a hypersphere analysis to predict meaningfulness.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If a system uses objective image quality metrics and image-to-image comparison to rank images, then the system can process images efficiently, but it fails to accurately predict which images a user will find meaningful because it cannot model complex human cognitive processes

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage processing efficiencyVSAvoidprediction accuracy of user meaningfulness
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary layer of user perspective modeling that mediates between objective image metrics and user meaningfulness predictions. This intermediary model captures subjective dimensions (emotional impact, personal significance, contextual relevance) that bridge the gap between objective quality and user perception, allowing the system to maintain processing efficiency while improving prediction accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transforms the evaluation parameters from purely objective image qualities to include user-specific subjective dimensions. By changing the parameter space to incorporate user perspective factors (motivations, preferences, contextual factors), the system can predict meaningfulness more accurately without sacrificing processing efficiency, as the transformation is performed through learned models rather than exhaustive analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Device complexity

If a system applies the same personalization logic universally across all users, then the system is simple to implement, but it cannot account for individual user perspective fluidity and contextual differences

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem implementation complexityVSAvoidadaptability to individual user context
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic user perspective modeling where the system adapts to individual users through continuous learning from their feedback and behavior patterns. The user perspective model is not static but evolves over time, adjusting to contextual differences and individual preferences, thereby achieving high adaptability without requiring overly complex manual configuration for each user.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system employs self-service mechanisms where users implicitly train the model through their interactions (feedback, selections, rejections). The model automatically adjusts to individual user perspectives without requiring explicit programming or complex setup, achieving adaptability through automated learning while keeping implementation complexity manageable.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Measurement precision

If a system uses multiple feedback loops and continuous learning to improve predictions, then prediction accuracy improves over time, but the system complexity and computational requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprediction accuracyVSAvoidsystem architecture complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements feedback mechanisms where user responses (explicit feedback like ratings and implicit feedback like selection behavior) are continuously fed back to refine the user perspective model. This feedback loop improves prediction accuracy over time by learning from actual user decisions, while the feedback architecture is designed to be integrated into the existing system flow rather than adding significant external complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20260105469A1General content perception and selection system
Publication Date: 2026.04.16 IMAIGE INC
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AI summary

This invention is directed toward a system which can “step into the shoes” of a user and learn the perspective of that user, regarding photographs or other content, to the point where the system can learn, using criteria it has developed through its interaction with the user, to select photographs it predicts the user will find meaningful from large sets of photographs. The “meaningfulness” of various content from a multitude of users is a constantly improving system made up of four basic elements: a General Content Perspective, an Individual Content Perspective, a Natural Language Generation and Content Presentation, and a Hypersphere element.