Real-time Visual Aid Generation from Heterogeneous Content

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current methods fail to dynamically generate and deliver real-time visual aids during live news reports or presentations, limiting audience engagement and understanding due to the inability to access relevant and up-to-date visual information.

Innovation Solution

A system that extracts keywords from summarized content, searches for corresponding visual aid elements in a repository, selects appropriate elements based on topic classification, generates visual aid objects using predefined templates, and delivers them to registered devices, enabling real-time dynamic visual assistance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If visual aids are pre-edited and provided in advance, then the presentation structure is clear and organized, but the visual aids cannot be dynamically updated in real-time during live reports

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereal-time dynamic update capabilityVSAvoidtime for manual editing and preparation
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing content from multiple sources, extracting keywords and organizing visual aid elements in advance. This preparation enables rapid assembly and delivery of relevant visual aids during live reports without requiring real-time manual editing, thus resolving the contradiction between real-time adaptability and time consumption.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system serves itself by automatically monitoring content sources, extracting relevant information, selecting appropriate visual aids, and delivering them without human intervention. This automation eliminates the need for manual editing while maintaining real-time responsiveness, addressing the contradiction between dynamic adaptability and time loss.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Productivity

If manual editing and selection of visual aids is performed, then the quality and relevance of visual aids can be controlled, but the process is time-consuming and cannot keep up with live report pace

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvespeed of visual aid deliveryVSAvoidrelevance and quality control
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system incorporates feedback mechanisms by continuously monitoring content sources, analyzing the relevance of extracted keywords to the current report context, and adjusting visual aid selections accordingly. This automated feedback loop ensures high-quality, relevant visual aids are delivered rapidly without manual intervention, resolving the contradiction between productivity and precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system replaces the mechanical process of manual visual aid selection with an automated computational system that uses keyword extraction, content analysis, and algorithmic matching. This substitution dramatically increases the speed of visual aid delivery while maintaining relevance through intelligent processing, addressing the contradiction between productivity and quality control.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Loss of information

If comprehensive visual aids are provided for all content, then audience understanding is enhanced, but the system complexity and resource requirements increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation comprehension and retentionVSAvoidsystem complexity for processing multiple sources
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the essential keywords and most relevant visual aid elements from comprehensive content sources, rather than processing and delivering all available information. This selective extraction reduces system complexity and resource requirements while still providing sufficient visual aids to enhance audience understanding, resolving the contradiction between information completeness and system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies different processing depths and visual aid selection criteria to different content sources and contexts, rather than uniformly processing all content. This localized approach optimizes resource allocation and reduces overall system complexity while maintaining high information comprehension quality where it matters most, addressing the contradiction between information retention and system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS10061761B2Real-time dynamic visual aid implementation based on context obtained from heterogeneous sources
Publication Date: 2018.08.28 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes extracting one or more keywords from summarized content according to one or more classified topics. The method also includes searching for visual aid elements that relate to the one or more keywords in a visual aid element repository that stores a plurality of visual aid elements. In addition, the method includes selecting one or more visual aid elements from the visual aid element repository based on a type of the one or more classified topics. Also, the method includes generating at least one visual aid object using the one or more visual aid elements based on at least one predefined visual aid template. Moreover, the method includes delivering the at least one visual aid object to one or more registered devices of at least one user.