Shared Sheet Comment Visualization Using Color-Coded Avatars
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional systems face difficulties in identifying and highlighting important discussion areas within a shared document as the number of comments increases, making it hard to grasp where discussions are actively debated and concentrated.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus and method that acquires position information, user identification, and input information, and uses this data to display identification images and determine importance levels for designated positions on a shared sheet, allowing users to easily identify important parts through corresponding object images.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If multiple users add comments to a shared sheet, then the discussion coverage increases, but the difficulty to identify important parts increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies color changes by displaying avatars with different colors corresponding to different users who have commented at specific positions. The color-coded avatar system allows users to quickly identify which positions have received comments from multiple users, thereby highlighting important discussion areas without requiring users to manually analyze text comments. This visual color-coding mechanism directly resolves the contradiction by maintaining high discussion coverage while significantly reducing the difficulty of identifying important parts.
2Loss of information
If comment count on a sheet increases, then discussion depth increases, but the ability to grasp important parts decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates visual copies of user identities through avatar icons that are displayed at specific positions on the sheet. Instead of requiring users to read through numerous text comments to understand discussion concentration, the system creates simplified visual representations (avatars) that copy and convey the essential information about which users have commented where. This copying mechanism preserves the discussion concentration information while dramatically improving the ease of grasping important parts.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses color-coded avatars to visually represent different users and their commenting patterns. When multiple users comment at the same or nearby positions, the colored avatars create a visually dense cluster that immediately signals an important discussion area. This color-based visual encoding maintains the information about discussion concentration while making it extremely easy to identify important parts at a glance.
3Loss of information
If multiple users annotate a sheet, then the information richness increases, but the visual clarity to identify key areas decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the information from multiple users by displaying individual avatar icons for each user who has commented at specific positions. Instead of presenting a wall of text or a single aggregated indicator, the system divides the information into discrete, visually distinct avatar elements. Each avatar represents one user's contribution, and the collection of avatars at different positions segments the overall information richness into manageable visual units that maintain clarity while preserving information about multiple contributors.
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AI summary
An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes an acquisition processor that acquires position information on a designated position designated by each of a plurality of users, in a sheet displayed in a display, identification information of the each of the plurality of users, and input information input by each of the plurality of users, a first display processor that displays an identification image corresponding to the acquired identification information at a position corresponding to the designated position in the sheet, an importance determiner that determines an importance for every designated position in the sheet, based on the acquired identification information and input information, and a second display processor that displays, based on the determined importance, an object image indicating an important part in the sheet in association with the designated position.