Media Content Guide Layout for Similar Item Separation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Media content guides often display similar representations of media content items close to each other, leading to a limited perception of available content and user confusion.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that organizes media content item representations in scrollable lists, compares similarity within a display range, and adjusts the order or replaces representations to minimize the occurrence of similar items, using image processing and metadata analysis to enhance user experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If media content guides display representations of available content in scrollable rows to provide extensive content selection, then the quantity of displayable content increases, but similar representations may appear close to each other causing user confusion and limited perception of available content
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by making the display arrangement adaptive - different spatial arrangements are applied to different representations based on their similarity characteristics. The system analyzes similarity between representations and dynamically adjusts their positioning, creating locally optimized display quality in different regions of the interface rather than using a uniform arrangement throughout.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamics by making the display arrangement changeable and adaptive. The system continuously analyzes the similarity between representations and dynamically repositions them to optimize spacing. This creates a living, responsive interface that adapts its structure based on the actual content being displayed, rather than using a static predetermined layout.
2Ease of operation
If the system repositions representations to reduce similarity occurrences and improve user experience, then user experience quality improves, but the computational complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies partial action by focusing computational effort only where needed - specifically on representations that are similar and positioned close together. Rather than analyzing and repositioning all representations uniformly, the system identifies problematic similar representations and applies repositioning selectively to those cases, reducing overall computational complexity while maintaining user experience quality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses parameter changes by adjusting the spatial parameters (positioning and spacing) of representations based on similarity analysis. The system changes the positional parameters of similar representations to increase separation, using similarity metrics as the basis for determining which parameter adjustments are needed. This allows the system to respond adaptively without requiring complete reorganization.
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AI summary
A computer implemented method comprising accessing representations for a plurality of corresponding media content items, each media content item having at least one corresponding representation, the representations being organized in an order in one or more sets of the representations, each representation comprising at least one of metadata for a corresponding media content item and an image for a corresponding media content item, each representation being for display to a user to enable the user to select to access the corresponding media content item, each set of representations being displayable as a scrollable list; using the order of the representations to determine display locations of the representations in the scrollable list in a display arrangement; comparing similarity of content of representations within a display range; and where representations are determined to have greater than a predetermined similarity, changing the order of at least one of the representations determined to have greater than a predetermined similarity to change the display location in the scrollable list of the at least one of the representations.