Reactive Content Area Setup Using Top View Lattice Overlay
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing digital signage devices lack the ability to efficiently create and manage reactive content that adapts to the surrounding environment and user interactions, limiting their effectiveness in outdoor advertising and user engagement.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device with a communication interface, display, and processor that corrects images into top view form, displays a lattice pattern guide interface, sets interaction areas using spatial coordinates, and maps content to these areas, allowing for dynamic and interactive content creation and management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If digital signage devices use traditional content creation methods, then content can be displayed, but the ability to adapt to surrounding environment and user interactions is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The interaction area is divided into multiple cells formed by a guide interface with lattice patterns. This segmentation allows creators to define interaction zones in discrete, manageable units rather than dealing with continuous complex areas, making environment-adaptive content creation simpler while maintaining versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms three-dimensional spatial information from sensors into a two-dimensional top view representation displayed on the screen. This dimensionality change allows interaction areas to be defined and manipulated in 2D space while still representing 3D environmental data, reducing content creation complexity while preserving environmental adaptability.
2Ease of operation
If digital signage devices implement reactive content with sensor integration, then user engagement improves, but the difficulty of setting and managing interaction areas increases
Solution Approach 1:
The guide interface with lattice patterns serves as an intermediary between the complex sensor data and the simple content creation process. It provides a visual overlay that mediates between the 3D spatial information from sensors and the 2D content definition, making interaction area configuration easier while maintaining accurate sensor integration.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a two-dimensional copy or representation of the three-dimensional interaction area through the top view display. This copied 2D representation can be easily manipulated and configured without dealing with the full complexity of 3D spatial data, reducing configuration difficulty while preserving the ability to manage reactive content effectively.
3Measurement precision
If digital signage devices use detailed three-dimensional interaction area definition, then interaction precision improves, but the complexity of area setting increases
Solution Approach 1:
The interaction area is segmented into discrete cells formed by the lattice pattern overlay. This segmentation provides precise measurement through defined cell boundaries while keeping area setting simple through visual selection of cells rather than complex coordinate input, resolving the contradiction between precision and complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent projects three-dimensional interaction areas onto a two-dimensional top view plane for configuration. This dimensionality change allows precise interaction area definition to be achieved through simpler 2D coordinate systems and visual interfaces, reducing area setting complexity while maintaining the precision needed for accurate sensor-based interactions.
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AI summary
Various embodiments of the present invention relate to a device and a method for setting an area for an interaction of reactive content in an electronic device, wherein an electronic device operating method can comprise the steps of: displaying an image acquired from an external electronic device electrically connected to the electronic device; correcting the image into a top view form; displaying a guide interface of a lattice pattern form such that the image corrected into a top view form is overlapped therewith; selecting at least a partial area of the guide interface; applying spatial coordinates for the at least partial area so as to set an area for an interaction in a sensor of the external electronic device; copying the selected at least partial area and attaching the same to an adjacent other area; and mapping content to the area for an interaction. Other embodiments are possible.