Multi-Dimensionally Linked Animation Presentation System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current advertisement systems lack effective methods to seamlessly integrate animations with multimedia files based on specific demographic suggestions, timing, and content relevance, leading to inefficient targeting and user engagement.

Innovation Solution

A method for presenting animations overlying multimedia files by selecting trigger points and time codes within the multimedia content, allowing for synchronized playback of animations with multimedia files, using multi-dimensionally linked animations (MLA) that can be linked to specific placement points and time codes, and providing residual elements for further information.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If advertisements are integrated into multimedia files, then user engagement and demographic relevance are improved, but the multimedia playback experience may become intrusive and less seamless

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedemographic relevanceVSAvoidintrusiveness

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The advertisement presentation is made dynamic by synchronizing it with the multimedia playback timeline. Animations are triggered at specific time codes and placement points during multimedia playback, allowing the advertisement system to adapt to the user's viewing context and maintain engagement without being statically intrusive

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

A multimedia player acts as an intermediary between the advertisement system and the user. The player receives instructions to play animations at specific placement points and time codes, mediating the delivery of advertisements in a controlled manner that integrates with rather than disrupts the multimedia experience

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If animations are played over multimedia files at specific placement points and time codes, then targeting precision and content alignment are improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetiming precisionVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The advertisement system is segmented into distinct components: placement points (spatial coordinates), time codes (temporal markers), and animation instructions. This segmentation allows for precise control of when and where animations appear during multimedia playback while managing system complexity through modular instruction sets

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system adds temporal and spatial dimensions to advertisement delivery by using time codes and placement points. Instead of simple sequential playback, animations are positioned in a multi-dimensional space-time framework that aligns with the multimedia content, enabling precise targeting without proportionally increasing complexity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

3Productivity

If multiple animations are linked to different placement points and time codes, then advertisement effectiveness and user engagement are improved, but processing requirements and system complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveadvertisement effectivenessVSAvoidprocessing requirements

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSPower

Solution Approach 1:

Animation instructions, including placement points and time codes, are prepared in advance before multimedia playback. The system pre-processes and stores multiple animation instructions associated with specific time codes and placement points, allowing efficient retrieval and execution during playback without excessive processing demands in real-time

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The multimedia player is designed with multi-functionality to handle both multimedia playback and animation presentation within a single system. This universal approach consolidates processing requirements rather than requiring separate systems for each function, improving advertisement effectiveness without proportionally increasing overall processing demands

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS11475622B2Systems, methods, and machine-readable storage media for presenting animations overlying multimedia files

Publication Date: 2022.10.18 LEAF GROUP LTD

AI summary

Provided are systems, methods, and machine-readable storage media for presenting animations overlying multimedia files in accordance with the present disclosure. Embodiments are described for linking an animation to a multimedia file and presenting the animation overlying a concurrent playback of the multimedia file (e.g., its content). Embodiments are described for including additional elements to the presentation of the animation outside of the playback of the animation, including residual elements that relate to the content of the animation and/or allow a user to receive further information about the content of the animation. Embodiments are described for linking an animation to more than one multimedia file.