Media Reliving Interface With Dimension-Based Virtual Albums
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current media sharing and reliving systems fail to personalize the browsing experience for recipients, as they cannot effectively analyze the semantic content of images and videos or consider the diverse interests and social networks of users, leading to an 'intent gap' and 'semantic gap' in user engagement.
Innovation Solution
A method that analyzes media collections to determine properties such as time, location, and people, producing icons for navigation toolbars, allowing users to reorder and customize the display of images and videos based on these dimensions, thereby enabling receiver-based customization and author-based storytelling.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If standard slideshow or flat list view is used for media browsing, then the system is simple to operate, but it cannot provide personalized reliving experience for different receivers
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the media collection into multiple virtual albums organized along different dimensions (time, location, people, events). Each dimension represents a separate organizational structure that can be independently navigated. This segmentation allows the system to provide personalized views without requiring a complete redesign of the browsing architecture, as each virtual album can be generated on-demand based on user preferences and receiver characteristics.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces multiple organizational dimensions (temporal, spatial, social, event-based) beyond the traditional flat list or chronological sequence. By organizing media along these additional dimensions and allowing users to navigate through them, the system provides personalized reliving experiences without significantly increasing system complexity, as each dimension can be implemented as a separate virtual album type.
2Loss of information
If automatic media analysis is performed to extract semantic content, then personalized browsing is enabled, but processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary analysis during media import and initial organization, extracting key metadata (GPS information, timestamps, face detections, event associations) and storing it in structured formats. This preliminary action reduces the need for repeated heavy processing when generating virtual albums, as the semantic information is already extracted and organized. The system only needs to retrieve and reorganize this pre-extracted data when creating different virtual album views.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts only the essential semantic features needed for virtual album organization (time, location, people, events) rather than performing comprehensive semantic analysis of all media content. This selective extraction of key attributes enables personalized browsing while minimizing processing time and computational resources by focusing only on the most relevant features for the virtual album dimensions.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple virtual albums are generated for different dimensions, then browsing flexibility increases, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal virtual album structure that can represent multiple organizational dimensions (chronological, geographical, social, event-based) using the same underlying architecture. Each virtual album type follows a consistent format and navigation paradigm, allowing the system to provide diverse browsing flexibility without requiring separate complex systems for each dimension. The multi-functionality is achieved through parameterized album generation rather than structurally distinct album types.
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AI summary
A method for viewing a collection of images or videos, includes analyzing the collection to determine properties of the images or videos and using the determined properties to produce icons corresponding to such properties; providing a time-varying display of the images or videos in the collection following an ordering of the images or videos in the collection and at least one of the corresponding icons; receiving a user selection of an icon; and changing the display of the images or videos in the collection following a reordering of the images or videos in the collection in response to the user selection.