Automated Multimedia Augmentation for Text Documents

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Solution Overview

Problem

E-books and web content often lack sufficient multimedia elements, making it time-consuming for users to find and integrate relevant illustrations, which hampers understanding and engagement.

Innovation Solution

A method and system for automated augmentation of text and web environments using multimedia content, where keywords are generated from text documents, and corresponding multimedia is retrieved and displayed concurrently, utilizing search engines and user settings to enhance visual engagement.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of time

If users manually search for illustrations in e-books and web content, then they can find relevant multimedia content, but the process is time-consuming and inconvenient

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveTime to find illustrationsVSAvoidConvenience of finding illustrations

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of timeVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically performs the task of finding and integrating relevant illustrations without requiring user intervention. The automated illustration integration system analyzes text content, retrieves appropriate multimedia content from databases, and inserts it into the document structure, allowing the system to serve itself rather than requiring manual user search and selection

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing text content to identify illustration requirements, pre-searching databases for relevant multimedia content, and pre-positioning illustrations in appropriate locations within the document structure before the user needs to view or interact with the content

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Ease of manufacture

If e-books and web content are kept as plain text, then they maintain simplicity and readability, but they lack visual engagement and understanding enhancement

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveSimplicity of content formatVSAvoidVisual engagement capability

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges plain text content with multimedia illustrations by integrating them into a unified document structure. The automated illustration integration system combines text elements and image elements into a cohesive output where both formats work together to enhance understanding, maintaining the simplicity of text while adding visual engagement through automated illustration insertion

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS11256848B2Automated augmentation of text, web and physical environments using multimedia content

Publication Date: 2022.02.22 SALAMA AHMED

AI summary

Provided is an example method for automated augmentation of text, web and physical environments using multimedia content. The method may comprise determining that a user device displays a portion of the text document in a predetermined format, analyzing the portion of the text document to generate one or more keywords, generating, based on the one or more keywords, at least one search query for a multimedia content search via a search engine, retrieving, from one or more data storages, one or more pieces of multimedia associated with the one or more keywords, and enabling the user device to display the one or more pieces of multimedia concurrently with the portion of the text document, wherein the one or more pieces of multimedia are displayed on the user device according to predetermined user settings.