Viewing Assistance for Accessing Previous Presentation Pages

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Solution Overview

Problem

In online meetings, attendees often cannot view previous pages of documents when the presenter flips through them, leading to difficulties in following the presentation.

Innovation Solution

A viewing assistance system that captures images and voice data during online meetings, associates them with document pages, and automatically stores and displays previous pages on a secondary screen, allowing attendees to view and record meeting content effectively.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Speed

If the presenter flips through documents one after another during an online meeting, then the presentation progresses efficiently, but the attendees cannot view previous pages that have already been displayed

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepresentation speedVSAvoidaccess to previous document pages
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system captures and stores document pages as they are displayed during the presentation in advance, making them available for later viewing by attendees without slowing down the presenter's progress through the material

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates copies of the document pages that are displayed during the presentation and stores them in association with the video data, allowing attendees to view these copies later without affecting the original presentation flow

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Quantity of substance

If the presenter displays multiple pages of documents during the meeting, then the content coverage increases, but the attendees lose track of previously shown pages

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent coverageVSAvoidaccess to previous pages
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system proactively captures and stores each document page as it is displayed during the presentation, ensuring that all pages are preserved in advance for attendee reference without requiring additional actions during the meeting

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system acts as an intermediary between the presenter's document display and the attendees' viewing needs, automatically capturing, storing, and making available all document pages for later review without interfering with the presentation flow

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS12494201B2Viewing assistance system, viewing assistance method, and nonvolatile recording medium storing program
Publication Date: 2025.12.09 KK TOSHIBA
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AI summary

A viewing assistance system includes a display unit, a captured image generation unit, a voice recognition unit, and an association storage unit. The display unit includes a display screen on which a content having multiple pages are displayable. The captured image generation unit that generates a captured image of the content that is displayed on the display screen. The voice recognition unit that recognizes a voice included in the content. The association storage unit that associates a voice recognition result that is a result of recognizing the voice included in the content by the voice recognition unit with the captured image generated by the captured image generation unit to store.