Semantic Layout Matching for Alternate Web Page Structures
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current website building systems lack the ability to generate visually different yet semantically equivalent layouts for existing pages, limiting design alternatives and flexibility, especially when updating or changing website layouts without altering underlying content.
Innovation Solution
A system that generates a single visual data structure based on a hierarchy of components, stores it in a database with an associated signature, and uses a signature comparer to match and present multiple visually different yet semantically similar alternate layouts for user selection, incorporating a visual data structure adapter and applier to adapt the hierarchy of components to the selected layout.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a website building system provides only single layout options for pages, then the system is simple to operate, but the design flexibility and visual diversity are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-generates multiple layout alternatives during the page creation process, so that when users need design options, they are already available without requiring complex real-time generation. This resolves the contradiction by preparing design flexibility in advance while keeping the operational system relatively simple.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates multiple copied versions of layouts with different visual arrangements but相同的 semantic structure. These copies provide visual diversity while maintaining operational simplicity through template-based replication rather than requiring users to manually design each variation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a system generates multiple visually diverse layout alternatives, then design flexibility improves, but the computational resources and processing time increase
Solution Approach 1:
Layout alternatives are generated in advance and cached, so that the computationally intensive layout generation process occurs during off-peak times or during initial page creation, rather than consuming resources whenever users access the system. This provides multiple layout options while managing computational resource usage effectively.
Solution Approach 2:
The system varies visual parameters (such as arrangement, spacing, styling) of layouts while keeping the semantic structure constant. This approach generates visually diverse alternatives with relatively low computational overhead compared to generating entirely different structural layouts, thus resolving the contradiction between layout diversity and resource consumption.
3Measurement precision
If the system stores and manages multiple visual data structures with signatures, then layout matching accuracy improves, but the database complexity and storage requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts essential semantic features from layouts and stores them as compact signatures in the database. This separation allows the full visual data structures to be generated on-demand while only storing the compressed signature representations, thus improving matching accuracy without proportionally increasing storage requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The signature representation transforms complex visual layouts into condensed parameter-based descriptions. This parameter transformation enables accurate layout matching through signature comparison while significantly reducing the storage requirements compared to storing complete visual data structures, resolving the contradiction between precision and quantity.
4Adaptability or versatility
If the system provides visually different layout alternatives, then design diversity improves, but ensuring semantic equivalence becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system varies only the visual arrangement and presentation aspects of layouts while preserving the core semantic relationships between components. By applying changes locally to visual properties rather than globally to the entire structure, the system achieves visual diversity while maintaining semantic equivalence, resolving the contradiction between these two requirements.
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AI summary
A system implementable on a computing device having a processor and a memory, including a visual design system to generate a single visual data structure based on a hierarchy of components; a database to store at least one visual data structure and an associated signature where the signature represents at least a semantic composition of the at least one visual data structure; a signature comparer to match a signature of the single visual data structure to an associated signature of at least one visual data structure stored in the database and to present multiple versions of alternate visual data structures for the hierarchy of components for selection by a user; and where the alternate visual data structures are visually different and semantically similar to each other.