Object-Triggered Collaboration Interface for Remote Content Editing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing collaboration systems fail to utilize object recognition technologies to enhance the collaboration experience of users, requiring all collaborators to be within camera view and lacking enforcement of privacy policies.

Innovation Solution

An object recognition engine identifies object characteristics from sensor data to instantiate a collaboration interface, allowing users to edit content associated with the object, reconcile conflicts, and enforce collaboration rules.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If object recognition technology is integrated into collaboration systems, then the collaboration experience is enhanced and personalized, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecollaboration experience customizationVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

An object recognition server acts as an intermediary between sensor data sources and collaboration interfaces. The server receives sensor data, performs object recognition to identify objects and retrieve associated content, then provides this processed information to electronic devices. This mediator approach enables sophisticated object-based collaboration without requiring complex object recognition functionality in each individual device, thus resolving the contradiction between enhanced adaptability and device complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If collaborators are required to be within camera view, then real-time interaction is enabled, but the accessibility and reach of collaboration is limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereal-time interaction capabilityVSAvoidcollaborator accessibility
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system creates digital copies of physical objects through sensor data (images, videos, audio recordings) and uses these copies as the basis for collaboration. Instead of requiring collaborators to be physically present within camera view, the object representation and associated content are transmitted to electronic devices, allowing remote collaborators to interact with the same object content without being in the same physical space, thus resolving the contradiction between real-time interaction and collaborator accessibility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Ease of operation

If privacy policies are defined by collaborators rather than enforced, then user autonomy is maintained, but privacy protection effectiveness is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser autonomyVSAvoidprivacy policy enforcement
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where collaboration data is harvested and monitored against defined privacy policies. When data usage violates established privacy rules, the system provides feedback by identifying and reporting these violations. This automated monitoring and feedback loop ensures that privacy policies are not merely defined by users but are actively enforced, maintaining both user autonomy in policy definition and reliability in policy execution.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20250348202A1Shared real-time content editing activated by an image
Publication Date: 2025.11.13 NANT HOLDINGS IP LLC
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AI summary

Systems and methods for instantiating collaboration interfaces via object recognition are disclosed. An object recognition engine communicatively coupled to a database and an electronic device receives sensor data related to an object and identifies an object characteristic. A component is selected having criteria satisfied by the object characteristic and a collaboration interface is instantiated on the electronic device. This can allow a user to edit content related to an object. A substantially identical collaboration interface can be instantiated on a second electronic device to allow collaboration among user with respect to content related to the object.