Server Comment Display Adaptation to Video Viewing Conditions

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing video delivery systems fail to adapt comments to user-selected viewing conditions, leading to mismatched impressions and potential reduction in video appeal due to fixed display sizes and angles of objects.

Innovation Solution

A server device with a video data storage unit and comment data storage unit that associates user comments with specific viewing conditions, ensuring comments are displayed accordingly when viewing conditions are changed by users.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If comments are displayed uniformly without considering viewing conditions, then the implementation is simple, but the comments may not be appropriate and may reduce video appeal

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability of comments to viewing conditionsVSAvoidcomplexity of comment management system
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by associating each comment with its corresponding viewing conditions (display size, display angle, object state) before the video is actually viewed. This pre-linking ensures that when the video plays, the appropriate comments are automatically displayed without real-time processing complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The comment data is segmented into multiple records, each associated with specific viewing conditions. Instead of a single uniform comment set, the system divides comments into condition-specific segments, allowing selective display based on current viewing parameters

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Ease of operation

If viewing conditions are changed according to user selection, then user control and video appeal are improved, but mismatched comments may be displayed

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser control over viewing conditionsVSAvoidmatching accuracy between comments and viewing conditions
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring the current viewing conditions (display size, display angle, object state) and automatically selecting comments that match these conditions. This closed-loop approach ensures comment-display consistency without requiring manual intervention

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

By pre-associating comments with specific viewing conditions in the data structure, the system eliminates the need for real-time matching calculations. When viewing conditions change, the system simply retrieves the pre-prepared comment set that corresponds to the new conditions

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11273372B2Server device and storage medium for use therewith
Publication Date: 2022.03.15 KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO LTD
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AI summary

Provided is a server device that when, during viewing of a video, viewing conditions for changing states of displayed objects included in the video are changed according to selection by the user, is capable of suppressing display of comments that do not match the viewing conditions of the video. A center server delivers, to a user terminal, replay data for displaying a replay video of which viewing conditions are changed during viewing in accordance with the selection by each user. The center server has a storage unit storing comment data including information about a stamp attached to the replay video and information about the viewing condition under which the replay video should be displayed. The center server, when delivering the replay data, provides the user terminal with the comment data so that the stamp displayed in the replay video is changed in accordance with change of the viewing condition.