Audio Content Identification in Video via Fingerprinting

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional approaches fail to enable users to directly identify and interact with audio content within video content items on digital platforms, such as social networking systems, limiting user engagement and interaction with music or audio clips.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that identifies audio content in video content items using audio fingerprints, generates notifications, and provides user interfaces for users to access information and interact with the identified audio content, allowing features like creating new content items and sharing, while the video continues to play.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If audio content identification and interaction features are added to video content items, then user engagement and interaction with audio content is improved, but system complexity and processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser engagementVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system separates audio content identification from video content delivery by using independent audio fingerprints that can be matched against a database of known audio content. This segmentation allows the video streaming infrastructure to remain unchanged while adding audio identification capabilities through a separate, modular component.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

An intermediary audio fingerprinting system is introduced between the video content and the user interface. This intermediary layer extracts audio features, matches them against a database, and returns identification results without requiring changes to the core video streaming system, thus managing complexity through abstraction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If notifications and interactive interfaces are provided for audio content identification, then user interaction capability is improved, but interface complexity and processing overhead increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser interaction capabilityVSAvoidinterface complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The interactive interface is implemented locally within the video player UI, providing audio content identification controls and notifications only where needed in the user experience. This localized approach allows enhanced interaction capabilities without requiring system-wide interface changes or complex global state management.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS11361021B2Systems and methods for music related interactions and interfaces
Publication Date: 2022.06.14 META PLATFORMS INC
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AI summary

Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can be configured to identify audio content included in a video content item. A notification can be provided based at least in part on the identification. An interface that presents information associated with the identified audio content can be provided based at least in part on a user interaction with the notification.