Crypto Wallet NFT Overlays for Real-Time Video Identity

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing technologies do not allow users to seamlessly integrate their Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) as overlays or backgrounds during online video interactions, limiting the creative expression and social media engagement with NFTs.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that connects a user's crypto wallet to a backend service, allowing the user to associate their social media ID with NFTs, enabling the NFT to be displayed as an overlay on their face or background during video calls using augmented reality applications.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If users want to integrate NFTs as overlays or backgrounds during online video interactions, then creative expression and social media engagement are enhanced, but existing technologies do not provide seamless integration capability

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveNFT integration capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a backend service as an intermediary between the user's crypto wallet and the video interaction system. This backend service receives video data, retrieves NFT information from the crypto wallet via API, processes the NFT images, and composes them as overlays or backgrounds. This intermediary architecture enables seamless NFT integration without requiring direct complex interactions between the wallet and video system, thus resolving the technical contradiction between adaptability and device complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Duration of action of moving object

If NFT images are processed and composed in real-time during video calls, then dynamic display is achieved, but processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereal-time processing capabilityVSAvoidprocessing delay
Core Design Contradiction:
Duration of action of moving objectVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by establishing the connection between the crypto wallet and backend service before the video interaction begins. The backend service is pre-configured with API access to retrieve NFT information, and the framework for processing is already in place. When video data arrives during the call, the pre-established connection enables rapid NFT retrieval and processing, reducing real-time delays while maintaining dynamic display capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS12511643B2User assumption of identity of NFT in crypto wallet
Publication Date: 2025.12.30 SNAP INC
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AI summary

A system and associated methods display on a user device a non-fungible token (NFT) in an application that displays video data. The methods include storing the NFT of a user in a database accessible to the application, associating an ID of the user for the application to the NFT, and receiving a selection of the NFT during use of the application. Upon selection, the selected NFT is provided to the user device for superimposing the selected NFT over the user's face, providing the selected NFT as a background image for the video data on the user device, or both. The user device includes a web application that connects the database to a crypto wallet containing the NFT. The NFT may be processed to crop out the eyes and mouth of the NFT for registration with the user's eyes and mouth when the NFT is superimposed over the user's face.