Media Device Configuration via User Comment Analysis

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current methods for viewing media assets on devices are cumbersome, requiring users to manually adjust settings for each asset, and often lack personalized recommendations, leading to suboptimal viewing experiences.

Innovation Solution

A system that analyzes user comments and preferences to recommend and implement optimal viewing configurations, such as brightness, contrast, and subtitles, based on collective user feedback and individual profiles, using natural language processing and machine learning to provide personalized settings for enhanced viewing experiences.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If users manually adjust viewing settings for each media asset, then viewing customization is achieved, but user effort and time consumption increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveviewing customizationVSAvoidtime consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-processes media assets to extract viewing factor information (brightness, contrast, subtitles) before playback. This preliminary analysis allows the system to automatically configure optimal viewing settings without requiring manual adjustment during each viewing session, thus reducing user time consumption while maintaining customization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables media assets to self-describe their optimal viewing parameters through embedded metadata and automated analysis. The playback device automatically reads and applies these parameters, allowing the media asset to effectively configure its own viewing conditions without user intervention, achieving customization with minimal effort.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Ease of operation

If users manually navigate through media device functionality to change viewing factors, then viewing preferences are adjusted, but operational complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveviewing preference adjustmentVSAvoidnavigation steps
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically detects and applies optimal viewing settings based on media asset characteristics and user profiles without requiring users to navigate through device menus. The media device self-configures parameters such as brightness, contrast, and subtitle settings, eliminating complex navigation while maintaining ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system incorporates user feedback from previous viewing sessions to automatically adjust viewing factors. By learning from user behavior patterns and preferences, the system anticipates desired settings and applies them automatically, simplifying the user experience without requiring manual navigation through complex device functionality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Device complexity

If viewing settings are not personalized, then device simplicity is maintained, but viewing experience quality deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem simplicityVSAvoidviewing experience quality
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments viewing parameters into distinct categories (brightness, contrast, subtitles, audio) that can be independently optimized for each media asset. This segmentation allows personalized viewing experiences without requiring complex integrated control, maintaining relative system simplicity while improving viewing experience quality through targeted parameter optimization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts viewing parameters based on media asset characteristics and user preferences. By changing parameters such as brightness levels, contrast ratios, and subtitle configurations according to specific media requirements, the system delivers optimized viewing experiences without requiring users to understand or manage the underlying complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

4Stability of the object's composition

If users repeat configuration steps for each media asset, then consistent viewing preferences can be maintained, but productivity decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveviewing preference consistencyVSAvoidconfiguration efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system creates universal user profiles that store viewing preferences applicable across multiple media assets. Once configured, these preferences are automatically applied to subsequent media consumption, allowing users to maintain consistent viewing settings without repeating configuration steps. The system multi-functionalizes the initial configuration setting across numerous media assets, significantly improving productivity while ensuring preference consistency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS20240276042A1System and method to identify and recommend media consumption options based on viewer suggestions
Publication Date: 2024.08.15 ADEIA GUIDES INC
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AI summary

Systems and methods for determining, based on recommendations provided by users that have consumed a media asset, which consumption options may be configured on a media device such that when configured enhance the user viewing experience for a specific media asset. The method includes accessing comments posted by other users that have consumed the media asset. The comments are analyzed to determine a consumption option recommendation. If the number of comments meet a threshold value, then the system either automatically configures the media device or configures the media device upon user approval with the recommended consumption option. The recommendation to configure a consumption option on the media device is made only if the recommendation is supported by the media device. The system also detects through audio and image analysis which users are consuming the media asset and accordingly configures the consumption options to their preferences.