Automatic Screen Capture and Annotation for Instructional Content
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional screen capturing is limited as it requires manual intervention for capturing, manipulating, and annotating content, making it inefficient for creating instructional materials.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and apparatus that automatically detect content modifications, generate screen captures, and add graphical annotations, enabling the tracking and recording of user interactions and modifications, and organizing them into units.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual screen capturing is used, then the capturing process is simple to implement, but the productivity and efficiency of creating instructional materials is low
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically detects content modifications on the display and generates screen captures without requiring manual user intervention. The computer monitoring system serves itself by autonomously identifying when to capture content based on detected modifications, eliminating the need for manual triggering while maintaining simplicity in usage.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-configures capture triggers by monitoring for specific content modifications. Before manual capturing is needed, the system has already detected the modification and prepared the screen capture, so that instructional materials can be generated automatically without waiting for manual operations.
2Loss of time
If manual annotation of screen captures is performed, then the annotation process is straightforward, but the time consumption and labor effort increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically generates annotations for screen captures by analyzing the detected content modifications. Instead of requiring manual annotation, the computer monitoring system performs the annotation function itself, identifying what content changed and creating appropriate annotations automatically, thereby eliminating time consumption and labor effort.
3Productivity
If automated content modification detection is implemented, then the productivity of capturing content increases, but the device complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the essential information from screen content - specifically detecting modifications rather than analyzing entire screens. By taking out only the changed portions and focusing detection efforts on identifying modifications rather than processing complete visual content, the system achieves high productivity while managing device complexity through selective monitoring.
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AI summary
Some embodiments of the inventive subject matter are directed to detecting a modification of content presented on a display. The detecting of the modification of the content is in response to user input. Some embodiments are further directed to generating a screen capture of at least the modified content in response to detecting the modification of the content. Some embodiments are further directed to identifying an area of the screen capture in which the modification of content occurred. Some embodiments are further directed to adding a graphical annotation to the screen capture.