Video Call Information Display for Conversational Material

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing video call technologies lack the ability to provide users with additional conversational material during a video call, limiting engagement and interaction beyond the call itself.

Innovation Solution

An information providing method and electronic apparatus that identifies users through face recognition or other means, acquires information-of-interest based on social network service usage, and displays this information on the video call screen, dynamically changing between common and individual interests as needed, with augmented reality animation effects and detailed UIs for selected topics.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If video call function is provided in related art apparatuses, then users can communicate through video call, but users have no additional conversational material after completing the subject matter of the video call and must hang up

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevideo call functionalityVSAvoidconversational material
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-acquires information-of-interest related to the user from social network services before the video call begins. This information is stored and prepared in advance, so that when the video call ends, the user immediately has relevant conversational material available without needing to search or wait for information retrieval.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an information providing server as an intermediary between the user's terminal and social network services. This server acts as a mediator that collects, processes, and delivers relevant information to the user during or after the video call, enabling continuous conversation without requiring direct user access to multiple social network platforms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If face recognition is used to identify users, then user identification accuracy is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser identification accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The terminal device performs face recognition and user identification autonomously using its own camera and processing capabilities. The system captures the user's face image, extracts features, and identifies the user without requiring external recognition systems, thereby improving accuracy while avoiding the complexity of integrating multiple external recognition systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentEP2728859B1Method of providing information-of-users' interest when video call is made, and electronic apparatus thereof
Publication Date: 2020.08.19 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

An information providing method and an electronic apparatus thereof are provided. According to the information providing method of the electronic apparatus, when a video call is made, a user making the video call is identified, at least one piece of information-of-interest of the identified user is acquired based on user's usage information on social network services (SNSs), and the at least one piece of information-of-interest is displayed on a video call screen.