Merged Message Image Formation for Cross-Platform Emoji Consistency
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current messaging technologies limit the sending of non-standardized predefined graphical images across various platforms, restricting the diversity and universality of emoji displays in text-based messages.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that allow the detection and transmission of predefined graphical images within messaging applications, enabling the formation and sending of merged messages as images, which can be universally displayed across different platforms, using a graphical input stream and coded character sets operable with multiple applications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If standardized emoji libraries are used across platforms, then universal display is achieved, but diversity and customization of graphical images are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent converts messages containing predefined graphical images into image copies (merged messages) that can be universally displayed across different platforms. Instead of relying on platform-specific rendering of diverse graphical images, the system creates standardized image representations that maintain visual consistency while preserving the diversity of original content.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines text content and predefined graphical images into a composite merged message format. This composite structure allows the system to handle both standardized text (for universal compatibility) and diverse graphical images (for customization) within a single message unit that can be consistently displayed across platforms.
2Adaptability or versatility
If non-standardized predefined graphical images are allowed, then diversity and customization are enhanced, but compatibility and universal display across platforms deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary process that detects predefined graphical images in messages and converts them into a standardized merged message format. This intermediary conversion layer enables non-standardized graphical images to be transmitted and displayed universally across different platforms without losing compatibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter format of graphical images by converting them from platform-specific representations into a standardized image format within merged messages. This parameter transformation maintains the visual characteristics and diversity of original graphical images while ensuring cross-platform compatibility through standardized formatting.
3Manufacturing precision
If graphical images are sent as separate entities, then image quality is maintained, but message integration and visual consistency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges text content and predefined graphical images into a single integrated merged message. This merging process maintains the high quality of original images while ensuring structural integrity and visual consistency of the complete message, as both elements are combined into a unified format that preserves their individual characteristics.
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AI summary
A method at a first electronic device with a display and an input device includes: displaying a message input area along with a graphical input stream in a first application, where the graphical input stream includes a source of predefined graphical images and a source for a coded character set. The method includes detecting entry of one or more objects from the graphical input stream into the message input area and receiving a user input to transmit the contents of the message input area. In response to receiving the user input to transmit, and in accordance with a determination that the one or more objects includes a predefined graphical image, the method includes forming a merged message comprising the contents of the message input area, including the predefined graphical image, where a merged message is an image, and transmitting the merged message to a recipient or another application.