NFT-Based Content Combination System for Digital Asset Creation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing methods for digital content creation do not allow users to generate new content data by combining multiple pieces of owned content data, limiting creative possibilities and value generation.

Innovation Solution

An information processing system that utilizes non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on a blockchain to manage ownership and combine multiple content data pieces, generating output control data that synchronizes and outputs rendering results as a time series signal, enabling new content creation and value appreciation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If users own multiple pieces of contents data, then they can prove ownership and use the contents individually, but they cannot create new contents by combining multiple owned contents data

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent creation capabilityVSAvoidsystem functionality
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent enables combining multiple pieces of contents data (images, videos, audio, 3D data) that a user owns into a single new content piece. The system generates output control data that integrates these multiple inputs, allowing users to create composite content such as videos with background music or images with audio captions, thereby merging separate owned assets into unified new content.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The content generation system is designed to handle multiple types of contents data (image, video, audio, 3D data) and generate various types of output content. The same system can create videos from images and audio, generate audio captions for images, or create 3D models from 2D images, providing universal content creation capability across different media types.

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

2Adaptability or versatility

If users can combine multiple contents data to create new content, then creative possibilities increase, but ownership rights management becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent creation capabilityVSAvoidownership rights management
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces an intermediary content generation apparatus that manages the combination of multiple contents data. This intermediary system handles the complex ownership verification and rights management automatically, checking whether the user has appropriate rights to combine specific contents before generating new content, thereby relieving users of the complexity while maintaining reliable ownership management.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides feedback to users regarding their ownership rights and permissions for combining contents. Before generating new content, the system verifies the user's rights and can inform users of any restrictions or requirements, ensuring that ownership management remains transparent and reliable even as content creation capabilities expand.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20240362854A1Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium
Publication Date: 2024.10.31 CANON KK
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AI summary

New contents data is generated by using a plurality of pieces of contents data owned by a user as raw material data. The information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure obtains user information indicating a user, obtains a plurality of pieces of contents data whose current owner is the user based on the user information, and generates output control data indicating contents in which rendering results of at least two pieces of contents data among the plurality of pieces of contents data are output and controlled as a time series signal.