Retailer GUI Color Scheme Adaptation for Guest Content

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing retailer graphical user interfaces (GUIs) incorporating guest-submitted content lack an effective method to enhance their aesthetic appearance, leading to a suboptimal user experience.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that analyzes guest-submitted content to identify a color scheme, grouping pixels by color and selecting representative colors to apply these schemes to the GUI, enhancing the aesthetic appearance of displayed content.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If guest-submitted content is incorporated into the retailer online service, then the content variety and user engagement are improved, but the aesthetic appearance and visual consistency of the retailer GUI deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent varietyVSAvoidaesthetic appearance
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSShape

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically generates color schemes by analyzing the pixel colors of guest-submitted content and applying these colors to GUI elements. This ensures that the visual appearance of the GUI adapts to match the content being displayed, maintaining aesthetic consistency while accommodating diverse guest-submitted content.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #32Color changes

Solution Approach 2:

The color scheme is dynamically generated based on the specific guest-submitted content being displayed. Instead of using a static color scheme for all content, the system adjusts the GUI colors in real-time to match each piece of content, creating a visually cohesive experience across varied content types.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Stability of the object's composition

If a fixed color scheme is used for the retailer GUI, then the visual consistency is maintained, but the aesthetic appearance when displaying diverse guest-submitted content deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevisual consistencyVSAvoidaesthetic appearance
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSShape

Solution Approach 1:

The system transitions from a static fixed color scheme to a dynamic adaptive color scheme. The GUI color scheme changes automatically based on the guest-submitted content being displayed, maintaining visual consistency with each content piece while preserving the overall structured layout and design principles of the retailer GUI.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the color parameters of the GUI based on the analyzed content. By extracting dominant colors from guest-submitted content and applying them to GUI elements, the system adjusts visual parameters dynamically while maintaining the structural integrity and consistency of the overall interface design.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS12579571B2Method for improving aesthetic appearance of retailer graphical user interface
Publication Date: 2026.03.17 TARGET BRANDS INC
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AI summary

A method for altering the aesthetic appearance of a retailer graphical user interface is provided. The method includes a retailer online service receiving a guest-submitted content, and an image processor of the retailer online service performing image processing of the guest-submitted content to generate a plurality of pixels. The method also includes the image processor identifying a color of each pixel of the plurality of pixels, and the image processor grouping each of the plurality of pixels into a plurality of clusters based on the color of each pixel of the plurality of pixels. Also, the method includes the image processor identifying a representative color for each of the plurality of clusters to develop a color scheme for the guest-submitted content. The method further includes implementing the color scheme when displaying the guest-submitted content onto the retailer graphical user interface.