Predictive Curator for Autonomous Multimedia Organization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face difficulties in efficiently locating, sharing, and utilizing their vast multimedia assets, such as photographs and videos, due to the sheer volume of content and lack of systematic organization, leading to challenges in creating personalized media-centric products without significant user involvement.

Innovation Solution

A predictive curator analyzes user media assets, transaction data, and behavioral patterns to autonomously identify and organize multimedia content, creating thematic products and suggesting sharing opportunities with minimal user interaction, utilizing co-occurrence tagging and social network comments to facilitate searching and product creation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If users manually locate and organize their multimedia assets, then they can identify important content, but the process becomes time-consuming and complex due to the vast volume of content

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent identification accuracyVSAvoidtime to locate and organize content
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs automatic content analysis, tagging, and organization without requiring manual user intervention. The predictive curator autonomously analyzes multimedia assets, identifies important content, and organizes it into thematic collections, allowing the system to serve itself rather than requiring user effort for each organization task

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the state of multimedia content by automatically generating metadata tags, categorizations, and organizational structures. This transforms unorganized raw content into structured, searchable assets with rich metadata, enabling efficient retrieval without manual user effort

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Adaptability or versatility

If users actively participate in creating media-centric products, then the products can be personalized, but the process requires significant user involvement and effort

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproduct personalizationVSAvoiduser involvement required
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The predictive curator autonomously creates personalized media products by analyzing user preferences, behavior patterns, and content characteristics. The system automatically selects content, determines product types, and generates personalized outputs without requiring active user participation in the creation process

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system incorporates feedback from user interactions, preferences, and behavior patterns to continuously improve product personalization. By monitoring user responses and adjusting recommendations accordingly, the system achieves high personalization quality while maintaining automated operation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Productivity

If the system autonomously creates thematic products, then productivity increases, but the complexity of the system increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproduct creation speedVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system divides the complex task of content creation into distinct functional modules: content analysis, tagging, thematic grouping, product selection, and generation. Each module handles a specific aspect of the process, making the overall system more manageable and maintainable while achieving high productivity through automated workflow integration

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS11947588B2System and method for predictive curation, production infrastructure, and personal content assistant
Publication Date: 2024.04.02 KODAK ALARIS LLC
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AI summary

Data points, calendar entries, trends, and behavioral patterns may be used to predict and pre-emptively build digital and printable products with selected collections of images without the user's active participation. The collections are selected from files on the user's device, cloud-based photo library, or other libraries shared among other individuals and grouped into thematic products. Based on analysis of the user's collections and on-line behaviors, the system may estimate types and volumes of potential media-centric products, and the resources needed for producing and distributing such media-centric products for a projected period of time. A user interface may take the form of a “virtual curator”, which is a graphical or animated persona for augmenting and managing interactions between the user and the system managing the user's stored media assets. The virtual curator can assume one of many personas with each user and can interact with the user via text/audio messaging.