Autodirection System for Real-Time Live Stream Transmission
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional approaches to producing live streams are cost-prohibitive for many events due to the need for expensive camera equipment and production crews, and users face difficulties in accessing centralized locations for live events scattered across multiple sources.
Innovation Solution
An autodirection system that automatically captures and directs live video and audio feeds using metrics-based decision-making, eliminating the need for expensive equipment and crews, and provides real-time transmission to users through a scalable, turn-key mechanism.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional approaches use expensive camera equipment and production crews to produce live streams, then the quality and reliability of the transmission is improved, but the cost becomes prohibitive for many events
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses automated algorithms and AI to perform functions previously requiring human production crews. The system autonomously captures, directs, and produces live streams without human intervention, eliminating the need for expensive crews while maintaining transmission quality through automated decision-making algorithms that select and switch between multiple camera feeds in real-time
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical system of human production crews with an automated computational system. Algorithms analyze video feeds, audio signals, and event data to make real-time directing decisions, substituting human manual operations with automated electronic processing and control systems that reduce costs while maintaining or improving transmission reliability
2Adaptability or versatility
If conventional approaches use multiple sources for live streams, then the variety of available content is improved, but the difficulty of accessing centralized locations increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a universal platform that aggregates live streams from multiple venues and events into a single accessible location. The platform performs multiple functions including content aggregation, centralized distribution, and unified access control, allowing users to access diverse content variety through one interface rather than navigating multiple scattered sources
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges multiple distributed live stream sources into a centralized platform. By combining content from various venues, events, and cameras into a single accessible location, the system maintains content variety while improving accessibility, allowing users to access all content through one unified interface rather than multiple scattered sources
3Measurement precision
If conventional approaches require production crews to review and direct feeds, then the decision-making quality is improved, but the complexity of the system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback loops where algorithms continuously analyze video feeds, audio signals, and event data to make real-time directing decisions. Sensors and detectors monitor the event environment, and the system adjusts camera selections, zoom levels, and audio mixing based on detected conditions such as performer movements, audience engagement metrics, and audio quality, maintaining decision quality through automated feedback-driven control
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameters of decision-making from human subjective judgment to automated algorithmic analysis of measurable parameters. The system analyzes quantitative data including video feed quality metrics, audio signal levels, detector readings, and pre-programmed event parameters to make objective directing decisions, replacing human qualitative assessment with automated quantitative analysis that reduces system complexity
Data Source
AI summary
In some aspects, the described systems and methods provide for a system for processing a stream for real-time transmission. The system comprises a processor in communication with memory. The processor is configured to execute instructions for an autodirection component stored in memory that cause the processor to receive a real-time stream for an artistic performance, detect one or more human persons in the real-time stream, rank the detected one or more human persons in the real-time stream, select, based on the ranking, a subject from the detected one or more human persons, determine a subject framing for the real-time stream based on the selected subject, process the real-time stream to select a portion of each frame in the real-time stream according to the subject framing, wherein the portion of each frame includes at least the subject, and transmit the processed stream in real-time.