Text-to-Graphic Conversion for Business Presentations

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Solution Overview

Problem

Business productivity software applications often fail to utilize eye-catching business graphics due to the requirement for significant graphical design skills and drawing talent, making it difficult for users to create and edit visual presentations effectively.

Innovation Solution

A software facility that automatically converts selected text into business graphics by mapping the text structure onto a graphic template, allowing users to choose from various designs and edit the graphics without needing special skills.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If users manually create business graphics using pregenerated templates, then graphical quality can be improved, but user effort and time consumption increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegraphical qualityVSAvoidtime consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs automatic text-to-graphic conversion without requiring manual user intervention. The software autonomously analyzes the selected text, determines the appropriate graphic template, and generates the visual representation, eliminating the need for users to manually map text to graphic elements or adjust template structures.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system pre-processes the selected text to extract its structural information and semantic meaning before template selection. By performing this analysis in advance, the system prepares the necessary data structure that enables rapid automatic graphic generation without requiring users to spend time on manual preparation work.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If users manually edit and customize business graphics, then design flexibility can be improved, but ease of operation deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedesign flexibilityVSAvoidease of operation
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces an automatic text analysis and template matching intermediary that bridges the gap between user input (text) and desired output (customized graphic). This intermediary automatically interprets the text structure, selects the most appropriate template, and performs the initial customization, reducing the manual effort required while maintaining design flexibility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates a copy of the selected text and transforms it into a graphic representation by copying the structural and semantic relationships from the text into the graphic template. This automatic copying process preserves the original text's information hierarchy while presenting it in a visual format, eliminating manual recreation effort.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Manufacturing precision

If professional graphical design skills are required to create effective business graphics, then graphical quality can be improved, but accessibility to the feature deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegraphical qualityVSAvoidaccessibility
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs the complex task of text-to-graphic conversion automatically without requiring users to possess professional design skills. The software autonomously handles template selection, text mapping, and graphic customization, making professional-quality graphic creation accessible to any user regardless of their design expertise.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system segments the complex graphic creation process into automatic sub-tasks: text analysis, template selection, text-to-element mapping, and graphic generation. By automating each segment, the system eliminates the need for users to have comprehensive design skills while maintaining high graphical quality through specialized automated processing for each task.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS10956660B2Automatically converting text to business graphics
Publication Date: 2021.03.23 MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
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AI summary

A facility for generating a graphic image is described. The facility receives from a user a body of text whose creation is not subject to any rules or prototypes. The facility discerns from the body of text a textual organization. The facility then generates a graphic image conveying the discerned textual organization.