Media Device Settings Configuration via Viewer 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 automatically configure media device settings, such as brightness and subtitles, based on collective viewer feedback and user profiles, ensuring a personalized and enhanced viewing experience.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If users manually adjust media device settings for each media asset, then viewing preferences can be customized, but the operation becomes cumbersome and time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of adjusting viewing settingsVSAvoidtime spent reconfiguring settings
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by analyzing viewer comments and preferences before media consumption to pre-configure optimal viewing settings. This eliminates the need for users to manually adjust settings during each viewing session, as the system has already prepared personalized configurations based on aggregated feedback from multiple viewers.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service by automatically configuring viewing settings without requiring manual user intervention. The system autonomously processes viewer feedback, identifies optimal settings, and applies them to media assets, allowing users to simply consume content without the burden of technical adjustments.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Adaptability or versatility

If the system provides personalized viewing recommendations, then viewing experience is enhanced, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalization of viewing experienceVSAvoidcomplexity of recommendation system
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces an intermediary layer that aggregates and analyzes viewer comments from multiple sources. This intermediary processing layer transforms raw, unstructured feedback into structured viewing recommendations, bridging the gap between diverse user inputs and personalized settings without requiring complex direct analysis of each individual comment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system achieves universality by creating a multi-functional platform that simultaneously processes viewer comments, analyzes preferences, generates recommendations, and configures device settings. This consolidated approach allows a single system to perform multiple functions that would otherwise require separate complex subsystems.

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

3Ease of operation

If users adjust viewing factors for each media asset, then viewing comfort is improved, but the ease of operation deteriorates due to repeated manual configuration

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of changing viewing factorsVSAvoidability to customize viewing experience
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback mechanisms by collecting and analyzing viewer comments and preferences from multiple consumption sessions. This feedback loop enables the system to learn from aggregated user experiences and automatically adjust viewing settings for future media assets, maintaining both ease of operation and adaptability through data-driven personalization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS12120387B2System and method to identify and recommend media consumption options based on viewer suggestions
Publication Date: 2024.10.15 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.