Transparent Transcription Overlay for Remote Desktop Viewing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing remote desktop systems struggle to effectively present transcriptions concurrently with multimedia presentations due to hardware limitations, user preferences, or language barriers, often requiring users to focus on multimedia applications and losing the transcription when switching to local desktops.
Innovation Solution
Utilize unused display areas on a secondary screen to present transcriptions with adjustable transparency, allowing users to view remote desktop content and transcriptions simultaneously by leveraging the client and agent components to redirect audio and generate transparent text or graphical presentations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If transcription is displayed on the remote desktop screen, then users can view transcriptions during multimedia presentations, but the transcription may distract from the primary multimedia content or require users to switch to local desktop losing the transcription
Solution Approach 1:
The patent displays the transcription in a side panel or overlay region adjacent to or superimposed on the multimedia presentation area, utilizing spatial dimensionality to accommodate both the transcription and multimedia content simultaneously without requiring users to switch between applications or lose the transcription when minimizing the remote desktop window
Solution Approach 2:
The transcription is displayed with adjustable transparency levels, allowing different regions of the interface to have different visual properties. The transcription can be made semi-transparent to reduce distraction while remaining visible, or opaque when users need to focus on reading, enabling local optimization of visual quality for different viewing needs
2Ease of operation
If transcription is made opaque for better readability, then users can read transcriptions more easily, but the transcription distracts more from the remote desktop content
Solution Approach 1:
The transcription display features dynamic transparency adjustment, allowing users to change the transparency level on-the-fly during the presentation. Users can switch between opaque and transparent states based on their current reading needs versus their need to monitor the remote desktop content, making the system adaptable to changing user requirements
3Adaptability or versatility
If users minimize remote desktop window to access local applications, then users can use local desktop resources, but the transcription is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The transcription is displayed in a persistent side panel or overlay that remains visible independently of the remote desktop window state. When users minimize the remote desktop to access local applications, the transcription continues to be displayed in the side panel or returns automatically when the remote desktop is restored, preventing transcription loss
Data Source
AI summary
A transcription, such as text of audio occurring at to a remote desktop and which may include a translation, may be presented concurrently with an image of the remote desktop on an unused area of a display screen. The transcription may be presented with a selectable and adjustable transparency, and can continue to be presented after the image of the remote desktop is minimized.