Multimedia Thumbnails for Mobile Document Browsing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current technologies face challenges in effectively browsing and viewing documents on mobile devices with limited input peripherals and smaller displays, as they often require extensive zooming and scrolling, and lack efficient methods to utilize both visual and audio channels for document representation.
Innovation Solution
The development of Multimedia Thumbnails (MMNails) that synthesize both visual and audible elements of a document, optimizing information for display on limited devices by assigning importance and time attributes to visual and audio segments, and combining these channels to provide an overview of the document in a concise and interactive manner.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If document viewing is implemented on mobile devices with small displays, then portability and accessibility are improved, but the need for extensive zooming and scrolling increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the document into multiple thumbnail representations, each showing different portions or aspects of the document. This allows users to navigate through segmented views rather than zooming and scrolling through the entire document, reducing the operational burden on mobile devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a temporal dimension by providing audio summaries that play while thumbnails are displayed. This adds an auditory channel for document consumption, allowing users to grasp document content without extensive visual navigation through zooming and scrolling.
2Reliability
If traditional document viewing methods are used on mobile devices, then document fidelity is maintained, but user interaction complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates simplified audio copies and summaries of document content that can be consumed without interacting with the full document. These audio representations serve as faithful yet condensed copies that reduce the need for complex visual interaction while maintaining document fidelity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces audio summaries as an intermediary between the user and the full document. This intermediary layer provides document information without requiring direct visual engagement with the complete document, reducing input peripheral requirements while maintaining accurate document representation.
3Loss of information
If audio information is added to document representation, then information channels are increased, but processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts key information from documents to create condensed audio summaries. Rather than processing and transmitting entire documents audio-visually, only essential information is extracted and converted to audio, reducing processing complexity while maximizing information channel utilization.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies partial action by providing audio summaries for only the most important document portions rather than converting entire documents to multimedia format. This selective approach increases information channel utilization while keeping processing complexity manageable.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
MMNails reduce user interaction by presenting essential visual and audio information in a concise format, suitable for limited displays and timeframes, enhancing document browsing on mobile devices by utilizing both visual and audio channels effectively.
Implementation Method 1
have audible information synthesized to play when displaying a representation of a portion of the document
Data Source
AI summary
A method, apparatus and article of manufacture for creating visualization of documents. In one embodiment, the method comprises identifying document information associated with a document and converting the document information to one or more constrained time-based media channels.