Composite Live Stream Recording with Editable Overlay Reconstruction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing video live stream recordings made locally fail to capture video overlays, graphics, and other streaming assets, resulting in a degraded quality and limited editing options due to mixing at cloud servers.

Innovation Solution

A method for generating composite video recordings by compositing local recordings from participants with video overlays and assets, allowing for event logging and editing, including adding, deleting, or modifying assets and timestamps, to replicate the original live stream.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If video live streams are recorded at a cloud server, then bandwidth restrictions are handled, but the recording quality is degraded relative to native quality

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvebandwidth managementVSAvoidrecording quality

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the recording process into two distinct components: (1) cloud-based compositing of video streams from multiple participants, and (2) local recording of individual participant video data at native quality. This segmentation allows each component to optimize for its specific function without compromising the other.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary compositing process that occurs in the cloud, where individual native-quality video streams are combined with overlays and graphics to create a composite stream. This intermediary step enables the cloud to manage bandwidth for the composite stream while participants record their native-quality individual streams separately.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Manufacturing precision

If recordings are generated locally on the client device, then native quality is preserved, but video overlays, graphics, and streaming assets are not captured

Engineering Contradiction:

Improverecording qualityVSAvoidoverlay and asset capture

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges locally recorded native-quality video streams with cloud-generated compositing data (overlays, graphics, assets) through a synchronized compositing process. Timestamps and event logs are used to align the locally recorded video data with the corresponding compositing elements, merging them into a unified high-quality recording that includes both individual participant video and streaming assets.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by logging all compositing events (overlay additions, graphic changes, asset modifications) with precise timestamps during the live stream. These pre-logged events are then replayed during the compositing phase to accurately reconstruct the original live stream appearance alongside the locally recorded video data.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Ease of operation

If assets and video streams are mixed at the cloud server, then a unified stream is created, but editing options are limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestream unificationVSAvoidediting options

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the final recording into distinct, independently editable components: individual participant video streams, overlay elements, graphics, and assets. Each component is maintained as a separate data track with its own timestamp metadata, allowing editors to selectively modify, remove, or adjust any element without affecting others, thereby providing extensive editing versatility while maintaining the unified stream structure.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

4Loss of information

If graphical overlays and media are mixed with video data, then a complete live stream representation is achieved, but local recordings fail to replicate the live stream accurately

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvelive stream completenessVSAvoidlive stream replication accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements a feedback mechanism where the cloud server continuously monitors and logs all compositing events (overlay changes, graphic modifications, asset additions) with precise timestamps. This feedback information is then used to guide the local compositing process, ensuring that locally recorded video data is accurately combined with the corresponding overlay and asset elements to replicate the original live stream appearance.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS12519905B1Configurable recordings of composite video live streams

Publication Date: 2026.01.06 BENDING SPOONS US INC

AI summary

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for generating configurable recordings of video live streams. A video live stream may comprise a plurality of participant video streams received from a plurality of video stream participants. Assets, such as graphical overlays, may be added to a video live stream and rendered over the participant video streams. The participant video streams and the assets may be composited to produce a composite video live stream. During the video live stream, events may be detected and logged. The events may be any change during the video live stream. Each video stream participant may generate a local recording of the corresponding participant video stream. A composite video recording may be generated based on the local recordings and the events. The composite video recording may be editable once produced.