Audio Video Metadata Generation Tool for Content Navigation
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
The task of locating specific content within large archives of audio/video productions is labor-intensive and time-consuming due to the variety and length of productions, necessitating an efficient method for navigating and managing metadata.
Innovation Solution
An audio/video generation apparatus equipped with a metadata generation tool that allows users to select and generate various types of metadata, including user-generated and secondary metadata, which can be recorded separately from the audio/video signals, facilitating efficient asset management and editing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If metadata is generated for all audio/video productions to facilitate navigation and content location, then the efficiency of locating specific content improves, but the complexity of managing and processing metadata increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments metadata into multiple hierarchical levels including clip-level metadata, sequence-level metadata, and production-level metadata. This segmentation allows the system to manage metadata in manageable units rather than as a monolithic structure, reducing processing complexity while maintaining comprehensive content location capabilities
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary metadata structure that acts as a bridge between the audio/video content and the navigation system. This intermediary layer includes standardized field codes and structured formats that simplify the processing and querying of metadata, making the system more efficient without requiring direct complex interactions with the underlying content
2Ease of operation
If comprehensive metadata is generated to describe all aspects of audio/video content, then the ability to navigate and edit content improves, but the time and resources required to generate and manage metadata increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by automatically generating standardized metadata during the audio/video production process itself. Field codes, scene descriptions, and content markers are created and structured in advance as part of the production workflow, eliminating the need for time-consuming post-production metadata creation and enabling immediate navigation and editing capabilities
Data Source
AI summary
An audio and/or video generation apparatus is arranged in operation to generate audio and/or video signals representative of an audio and/or video source has a meta data generation tool which is arranged in operation to generate meta data associated with the audio and/or video signals, wherein the type of meta data generated by the meta data generation tool is user selectable. The audio and/or video generation apparatus may comprise a recording means which is arranged in operation to record the audio and/or video signals on a recording medium, and the audio and/or video generation apparatus may be arranged to receive meta data associated with the audio and/or video signals generated by a data processor, the recording means being arranged in operation to record the meta data on the recording medium with the audio and/or video signals. The meta data may be user generated, such as text describing the audio/video signals, or may be secondary meta data which is automatically generated by the audio/video apparatus. The recording medium may be a linear recording medium, and the recording means may be arranged in operation to record at least one of the user generated meta data and the secondary meta data on the recording medium after the audio and/or video signals at a position at which at least one of the user generated and secondary meta data can be read by a reproducing means before the audio and/or video signals.