Authorized Streaming Video Clips From Buffered Source Content
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for capturing and sharing video clips from display content often result in lower quality, require extensive manipulation, and fail to capture unexpected or replayed content effectively, leading to inefficiencies and suboptimal user experiences.
Innovation Solution
A system that connects a user device with a display device and a server to buffer high-quality content, analyze requests, and generate clips of appropriate length and format for sharing platforms, reducing the need for manipulation on the user device.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If a user device uses a connected or integrated camera to capture content from a display source, then the user can obtain video clips, but the captured content is lower quality than the original source due to distortion and recording quality
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a digital copy of the video content from the buffered stream rather than capturing it through the camera. The user device requests specific time ranges from the server buffer, which then provides authorized video clips directly from the original source stream, eliminating camera-induced quality degradation while maintaining ease of operation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a user device captures content manually with a camera, then the user can create video clips, but extensive manipulation is required to meet platform requirements such as runtime limits and aspect ratios
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-buffering the complete video content and pre-processing it into segments on the server side. When a user requests a clip, the system has already prepared the content in various formats and can quickly deliver platform-compliant versions without requiring the user to spend time on editing, cropping, or format conversion.
3Productivity
If a user device only captures expected content, then the user can record planned events, but unexpected content or content that has already been displayed cannot be captured
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary buffering of the video stream on the server, storing content before the user watches it. This allows the user to request clips of content that has already been displayed or is currently being displayed, as the buffer contains these segments. The system can then retrieve and deliver these clips on demand, enabling capture of both expected and unexpected content as well as content that has already passed.
4Ease of operation
If captured content is processed manually on the user device, then the user can create clips, but the process is time consuming and requires extensive manipulation
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary server that handles all the complex processing between the content source and the user device. The server buffers the video stream, segments it, and prepares multiple format variations. When a user requests a clip, the intermediary server quickly delivers the processed content in the required format, eliminating the need for the user device to perform time-consuming manipulation while maintaining ease of operation.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing video clips of displayed content for download or sharing. These systems and methods may generate, upon request, clips of events that are ongoing, have already happened, or will happen in the future. A request may specify a particular event and the systems and methods may locate the relevant clip within the content. The systems and methods may further format the clip for a preferred platform or presentation. A clip, once generated, can be provided to a user device, which can upload the clip to a designated app or platform, e.g., for social media sharing.