Media Asset Identifier Background Graphics for Custom List Recall
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulty in quickly identifying and remembering media assets they are interested in within vast media libraries, as existing media guidance applications lack effective visual cues to differentiate and remind users of their custom lists.
Innovation Solution
A media guidance application determines if a media asset identifier corresponds to a user's custom list and selects a graphic as its background, matching the display dimensions, by retrieving and modifying graphics from a database to ensure they fit within specific size constraints, using techniques like cropping or scaling, and prioritizing user preferences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If media guidance applications provide comprehensive media asset identifiers in a grid-guide format, then users have access to extensive media libraries, but users struggle to quickly identify and remember media assets they are interested in
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by differentiating media asset identifiers through selective background graphics. Not all media assets receive the same visual treatment - only those in custom lists receive distinctive background graphics, creating local visual differentiation that helps users quickly identify and remember their preferred media assets within the comprehensive grid-guide display.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent utilizes color changes through background graphics to visually distinguish media assets in custom lists from other media assets. By assigning different background colors or graphical patterns to media assets that users have marked as important, the system creates visual cues that enhance user recall and identification without altering the fundamental grid-guide structure.
2Adaptability or versatility
If media guidance applications allow users to create customized lists, then users can organize media assets by interest, but users may not remember media assets saved on the list while navigating listings
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by assigning distinctive background graphics specifically to media assets that appear in user-defined custom lists. This creates a localized visual indicator that accompanies media asset identifiers in the grid-guide, providing continuous visual reinforcement that helps users remember their customized selections while navigating through the media library.
Solution Approach 2:
The background graphic serves as an intermediary visual element between the media asset identifier and the user's memory. Rather than relying solely on text-based identifiers, the background graphic acts as an additional visual mediator that encodes the custom list status, making the abstract concept of a custom list concrete and memorable through visual association.
3Ease of operation
If media guidance applications display media asset identifiers with uniform formatting, then the interface is simple and consistent, but visual differentiation between important and less important media assets is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent maintains overall interface simplicity through uniform grid-guide formatting while introducing local visual differentiation through background graphics. The majority of media asset identifiers continue to display with standard formatting, but selected media assets receive distinctive background graphics, creating subtle yet effective visual differentiation without complicating the overall interface structure.
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AI summary
Systems and methods are provided herein for selecting graphics to use as backgrounds of media asset identifiers. To this end, a media guidance application may determine that a media asset identifier is to be generated for display, and may determine whether the user input an explicit preference for a media asset corresponding to the media asset identifier (e.g., the user added the media asset to his watch list). In response to determining that the user input the explicit preference for the media asset corresponding to the media asset identifier, the media guidance application may determine display dimensions of the second media asset identifier, select a graphic that corresponds to the display dimensions, and generate for display the selected graphic as a background graphic of the media asset identifier.