Virtual Showroom Exchange Network for Low-Bandwidth Item Inspection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing virtual showroom systems are limited by the lack of comprehensive and high-throughput image and video acquisition, leading to increased network bandwidth usage, processing load, and decreased power availability, while sacrificing the traditional in-person inspection experience.
Innovation Solution
A computerized exchange network that captures and processes images and videos of items for virtual showrooms, providing detailed information and reducing bandwidth usage through efficient image acquisition and storage, allowing high-volume sales with minimal human intervention.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If comprehensive image and video acquisition is implemented for virtual showrooms, then information availability for users is improved, but network bandwidth usage and processing load increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and stores only the most relevant visual information from comprehensive image and video acquisitions. Instead of transmitting all captured data, the system identifies and retains key features, details, and attributes that provide maximum information value while minimizing data volume, thereby reducing network bandwidth consumption while maintaining information availability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transforms visual data from raw image and video formats into processed parameter representations. By converting comprehensive visual information into structured data parameters (such as extracted features, attributes, and metadata), the system maintains full information availability for virtual showroom operations while significantly reducing the bandwidth required for data transmission and storage.
2Loss of information
If comprehensive image and video acquisition is implemented for virtual showrooms, then information availability for users is improved, but computing resource utilization increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary processing and filtering of image and video data before full acquisition and storage. By pre-processing visual information to extract only essential features and attributes, the system prepares data in advance in a compressed, parameter-based format, reducing the computing resources required during virtual showroom operations while maintaining comprehensive information availability.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of storing and processing all original high-resolution images and videos, the system creates simplified copies in the form of extracted parameters, features, and metadata. These parameter-based copies retain the essential information content needed for virtual showroom functionality while requiring significantly fewer computing resources for storage, retrieval, and processing.
3Ease of operation
If detailed information about items is provided in virtual showroom, then user inspection experience is improved, but bandwidth usage increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms detailed item information from extensive image and video data into concise parameter representations. By encoding comprehensive inspection information into structured parameters (such as extracted features, attributes, and key metadata), the system provides rich user inspection experiences while minimizing the bandwidth required to transmit and display this information in virtual showrooms.
4Productivity
If high-volume sales are facilitated through virtual showroom, then productivity is improved, but image acquisition and processing throughput requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential visual information and parameters needed for high-volume sales transactions. By identifying and retaining only the critical features and attributes required for product identification, comparison, and purchase decisions, the system enables rapid processing of large numbers of items through virtual showrooms without requiring proportionally high image acquisition and processing throughput.
Solution Approach 2:
The system converts detailed image and video data into efficient parameter-based representations that can be quickly processed and transmitted. This parameter transformation enables high-volume sales operations by reducing the computational burden of image acquisition and processing, allowing the virtual showroom to handle large transaction volumes with manageable throughput requirements.
Data Source
AI summary
A computerized exchange network makes available on the Internet collected information of items under inspection, such as goods, real estate, or the like. In one aspect, the items and collected information, such as images and videos, are added to a virtual showroom or other virtual inspection site that presents an inventory of such goods, real estate, or the like available from multiple sellers and/or locations. In another aspect, detailed objective information about the items is provided. In another aspect, a data structure includes desired criteria for a desired item and provides an alert when an item of interest matches the desired criteria.