Audio Transient Detection for Video Clip Sequencing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current computing devices lack user-friendly tools for creating audiovisual content from existing videos, requiring specialized equipment and expertise for editing and processing audio and video clips.

Innovation Solution

A computing device with a graphical user interface and machine learning models that identify transient points in audio to extract corresponding video clips, allowing users to sequence and generate new audiovisual content by selecting and modifying audio and video clips.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If specialized equipment and expertise are used for editing and processing audio and video clips, then the quality and precision of audiovisual content generation is improved, but the ease of operation and accessibility for普通 users deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequality of audiovisual contentVSAvoiduser-friendliness
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically performs complex audio and video processing tasks without requiring user expertise. The machine learning model autonomously identifies transient points, extracts relevant clips, and generates synchronized audiovisual content, allowing普通 users to create professional-quality content through simple interactions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

A machine learning-based intermediary system bridges the gap between raw video footage and final audiovisual content. This intermediary automatically analyzes audio transients, extracts corresponding video clips, and synchronizes them, eliminating the need for users to manually perform complex editing tasks while maintaining high quality output.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Manufacturing precision

If manual selection and sequencing of audio and video clips is performed, then the precision and control over the final content is improved, but the time required for content generation increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontrol over audiovisual contentVSAvoidcontent generation time
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of the entire video file to identify all transient points and extract potential audio clips before the user begins sequencing. This pre-processing automatically segments the audio and associates corresponding video clips, so when the user selects clips for sequencing, the relevant video portions are already prepared and matched, significantly reducing the time required for content generation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides real-time feedback by displaying identified transient points and extracted audio clips with their corresponding video segments. This allows users to quickly review and adjust selections while the system maintains automated synchronization, enabling precise control without requiring time-consuming manual adjustment of each clip's timing and position.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Adaptability or versatility

If complex audio and video processing algorithms are used, then the capability to extract and synchronize clips is improved, but the device complexity and computational requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecapability for clip extraction and synchronizationVSAvoidcomputational requirements
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The machine learning model is trained to recognize specific audio transient patterns and characteristics, transforming complex processing into pattern-matching operations. By changing the approach from general-purpose complex algorithms to specialized pattern recognition trained on audio transients, the system achieves high adaptability for clip extraction while reducing the computational burden during actual processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS20240282341A1Generating Audiovisual Content Based on Video Clips
Publication Date: 2024.08.22 GOOGLE LLC
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AI summary

A method includes capturing, by a content generation component of a computing device, initial content comprising video, and audio associated with the video; identifying one or more audio clips in the audio associated with the video based on one or more transient points in the audio; extracting, for each audio clip, a corresponding video clip from the video of the initial content; providing a control interface to enable a user-generated sequence of audio clips, wherein each audio clip in the sequence of audio clips is selected from the one or more identified audio clips; generating new audiovisual content comprising a sequence of video clips to correspond to the user-generated sequence of audio clips, wherein each video clip in the sequence of video clips is the extracted corresponding video clip for each audio clip in the user-generated sequence of audio clips; and providing, by the control interface, the new audiovisual content.