Video Distribution System Segmentation for Gift Objects

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing video distribution systems face challenges in displaying gift objects without deteriorating the viewing experience, as they often overlap with the main video content, hiding important parts and negatively impacting user engagement.

Innovation Solution

A video distribution system that allows for the display of gift objects, specifically decorative objects, in association with a character object, while preventing overlap and enabling user selection from a candidate list, with options for purchase and possession management, ensuring the main video content remains unobstructed.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If gift objects are displayed to overlap with the video, then user interaction and engagement are enhanced, but the main video content is hidden and viewing experience deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser interactionVSAvoidvideo content visibility
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The screen is divided into distinct regions: a content display region for the main video and a background region for gift objects. This spatial segmentation allows both the video content and gift objects to be displayed simultaneously without overlapping, resolving the contradiction between enhancing user interaction and maintaining video visibility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different regions of the screen are assigned different functional qualities: the content display region prioritizes video visibility while the background region accommodates interactive elements. This local differentiation allows each region to optimize its specific function without compromising the other.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Adaptability or versatility

If a large amount of gift object is displayed, then user engagement is increased, but the video content is more severely obscured and viewing experience is more deteriorated

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser engagementVSAvoidvideo content area
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSArea of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The display screen is segmented into a content display region and a background region. Gift objects are confined to the background region, preventing them from occupying space in the content display region. This allows multiple gift objects to be displayed without reducing the area available for video content.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Gift objects are positioned in a background layer that is spatially separated from the foreground video content. This dimensional layering allows multiple gift objects to coexist without competing for the same visual space, maintaining full video content visibility while enabling rich user interaction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

3Ease of operation

If gift objects are displayed in the content display region, then user interaction is enhanced, but the main video content is hidden and viewing experience deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser interactionVSAvoidvideo viewing quality
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The display region is segmented into a content display region for reliable video viewing and a background region for interactive gift objects. This segmentation ensures that video viewing quality is maintained in the content display region while user interaction is enabled through the background region.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The background region acts as an intermediary space that mediates between the video content and user interaction elements. Gift objects are placed in this intermediary zone, allowing users to interact with them without interfering with the primary video content display.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS11202118B2Video distribution system, video distribution method, and storage medium storing video distribution program for distributing video containing animation of character object generated based on motion of actor
Publication Date: 2021.12.14 GREE HOLDINGS INC
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AI summary

A video distribution system according to one aspect is a video distribution system for distributing a video containing animation of a character object generated based on a motion of an actor, the video distribution system including: one or more computer processors; and a storage for storing a candidate list including candidates of decorative objects to be displayed in the video in association with the character object. The one or more computer processors execute computer-readable instructions to: in response to reception of a first display request from a viewing user, the first display request being sent for requesting display of a first decorative object among the decorative objects, add the first decorative object to the candidate list, and display the first decorative object in the video upon selection of the first decorative object from the candidate list.