ML Digital Signage Content Approval

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Solution Overview

Problem

The existing manual process for digital content approval in digital signage is time-consuming and prone to errors due to human involvement, leading to delays and inconsistencies in compliance with varying rules and criteria defined by media owners and local authorities.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented method using machine learning that involves storing a machine learning algorithm model, determining metadata related to images, and executing the algorithm to generate a content approval indicator based on inputs such as metadata, display time, location, and screen data.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If manual content approval is performed by human beings, then compliance with rules and criteria can be determined, but the process becomes time-consuming and delays occur

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompliance determination accuracyVSAvoidapproval process time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the manual mechanical inspection process with an automated machine learning system. The ML algorithm automatically analyzes digital signage content against predefined rules and criteria, eliminating the need for human visual inspection while maintaining compliance determination accuracy and significantly reducing approval time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service content approval through automated ML-based compliance checking. The algorithm independently evaluates content without requiring human intervention, allowing the content approval process to serve itself through automation rather than manual review.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Reliability

If manual content approval is performed by human beings, then compliance can be assessed, but errors occur due to lack of concentration, tiredness, or lack of skills

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompliance assessment accuracyVSAvoidcompliance determination precision
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces human manual assessment with an automated machine learning system that eliminates errors caused by human factors such as lack of concentration, tiredness, or insufficient skills. The ML algorithm consistently applies compliance rules without variation, ensuring high precision in compliance determination.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Reliability

If multiple levels of content approval are enforced by different persons, then comprehensive compliance checking is achieved, but the procedure becomes complex and involves multiple delays

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecomprehensive compliance checkingVSAvoidapproval procedure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple levels of compliance checking into a single automated ML system. The algorithm simultaneously evaluates content against multiple sets of rules and criteria that would traditionally require separate human reviewers, consolidating the multi-level approval process into one unified automated procedure that maintains comprehensive checking while eliminating procedural complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The ML-based approval system performs multiple compliance checking functions simultaneously, serving as a universal reviewer that can evaluate content against various media owner rules, local authority regulations, and technical standards in a single pass, replacing the need for multiple specialized reviewers.

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

4Reliability

If multiple levels of content approval are enforced by different persons, then various rules and criteria are covered, but several delays occur in the process

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverules and criteria coverageVSAvoidmulti-level approval delays
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple compliance evaluation tasks into a single automated ML process that simultaneously checks content against all applicable rules and criteria across different approval levels, eliminating the sequential delays that occur when content passes through multiple human reviewers one after another.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentEP4564261A1Method and computing device using machine learning for performing digital content approval
Publication Date: 2025.06.04 BROADSIGN SERV INC
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AI summary

Method and computing device using machine learning for performing content approval (40). The computing device determines metadata (20) related to at least one image (10) and executes a machine learning algorithm (200). The machine learning algorithm (200) uses a model for determining a content approval indicator based on inputs. The content approval indicator (40) indicates whether a content of the at least one image is approved. The inputs comprise the metadata (20) and additional data (30), such as timing data, location data and screen data. For instance, the content is a digital signage content. In an exemplary implementation, the metadata comprise textual metadata and the model is a Natural Language Processing model (e.g. a Large Language Model). The determination of the metadata comprises a processing of the at least one image with another machine learning algorithm (100).