Shared Digital Asset Rendering Across Display Aspect Ratios
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional collaboration systems fail to maintain consistent appearance and content quantity of digital assets across displays with varying aspect ratios and resolutions, leading to reduced collaboration quality and user participation.
Innovation Solution
A method for sharing digital assets involves receiving container metadata to determine the size and location of the asset on a second display, ensuring consistent appearance and content quantity across multiple displays by using a central controller to adjust the asset's position and size based on a predefined aspect ratio.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If digital assets are displayed based on the aspect ratio and resolution of each display device, then the display adapts to different device characteristics, but the appearance and size of digital assets vary across displays
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes the parameter representation from absolute pixel dimensions to aspect ratio-based relative dimensions. Each digital asset stores its intrinsic aspect ratio, and the rendering engine calculates display dimensions by scaling the asset to fit the display's aspect ratio while maintaining the asset's aspect ratio, thus adapting to different displays while preserving appearance consistency.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a universal rendering approach that works across all display devices regardless of their specific aspect ratios or resolutions. By using aspect ratio as a universal parameter rather than device-specific pixel dimensions, the same digital asset can be consistently rendered on diverse displays from smartphones to large monitors.
2Ease of operation
If reflowable content is adapted by the local rendering engine based on display characteristics, then the content fits the display size, but the amount of visible content varies across displays
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary calculations to determine the optimal viewport dimensions and content scaling factors before rendering. The rendering engine pre-computes the visible content area based on the display's aspect ratio and the asset's intrinsic aspect ratio, ensuring that the same amount of content is visible across all displays regardless of their size or resolution.
3Device complexity
If each device renders digital assets independently based on its display characteristics, then the rendering is simple and device-specific, but collaboration quality decreases due to appearance inconsistencies
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes the rendering approach from device-specific absolute dimensions to aspect ratio-based relative dimensions. This parameter transformation enables a simple, consistent rendering rule to be applied across all devices, reducing rendering complexity while improving collaboration quality through appearance consistency.
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AI summary
In one embodiment of the present invention, a collaboration engine is configured to display shared digital assets consistently across displays. The collaboration engine receives container metadata generated based on a first location and first size of a digital asset within a first scaled workspace displayed on a first display. In response, the collaboration engine computes a second location and second size of the digital asset based on the container metadata and the size of a second scaled workspace. Finally, the collaboration engine configures the second device to display the digital asset within the second scaled workspace based on the second location and the second size. Notably, the container metadata correlates to the appearance of the digital asset on the first display, and the appearance of the digital asset on the second display correlates to the container metadata. Consequently, the appearance of the digital asset is consistent across the displays.