Audio Segment Marking for Media Presentation Modification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing media presentation systems fail to effectively manage repetitive and objectionable content, such as commercials and theme songs, which can become tiresome for viewers, by not providing a method to skip or mute them across multiple media items.
Innovation Solution
A media presentation system that uses audio segment marking and detection technology to identify and alter the presentation of selected objectionable content, such as muting or skipping, by generating and storing audio detection data for comparison across media items, allowing users to mark and remove repetitive content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If audio detection data is generated and stored for comparison across media items, then the ability to identify and block repetitive content is improved, but the device complexity and storage requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments audio content into discrete audio segments with unique identifiers, allowing the system to detect and track specific segments across multiple media items without analyzing entire media streams. This segmentation approach reduces computational complexity while maintaining reliable content identification and blocking capability.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the system blocks matching segments across multiple media items, then user satisfaction is improved by reducing repetitive content, but the loss of information about the blocked content occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where user responses to blocked content are tracked and stored. This feedback loop allows the system to learn from user interactions and adjust blocking behavior, ensuring that content blocking aligns with user preferences while minimizing unnecessary information loss. The feedback also enables the system to distinguish between content that should be blocked and content that, while repetitive, may still be of interest to the user.
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AI summary
Methods and systems of modifying a media presentation are presented. In one example, a first media item including first audio data is played. During that time, a user indication is received. In response to the indication, detection data for a first audio segment of the first audio data is generated. A second media item including second audio data is then played. A second audio segment in the second audio data corresponding to at least a portion of the first audio segment is detected based on the detection data. Whether a location in the second audio segment corresponds to a location in the detection data associated with the user indication is determined. In response to the location in the second audio segment corresponding to the location in the detection data, the playing of the second media item is altered during at least a portion of the second audio segment.