Content Duration Adjustment via Transition Period Insertion
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Solution Overview
Problem
The coordination of variable and fixed-length content, as well as scheduled and unscheduled broadcast times, often results in undesirable gaps between content pieces, and the removal of objectionable material further complicates scheduling, leading to issues like blank screens due to duration mismatches.
Innovation Solution
The solution involves adjusting the duration of content by inserting transition periods or cut scenes to synchronize variable-length content with fixed schedules, ensuring both versions start and end at the same time, and using these inserts to maintain the desired duration even after removing objectionable material.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If variable-length content is coordinated with fixed-length content, then content scheduling flexibility is improved, but gaps or dead times between content pieces occur
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the duration of content pieces by inserting transition periods or cut scenes to compensate for duration differences between variable-length and fixed-length content, eliminating gaps while maintaining scheduling flexibility
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the time parameter of content duration by adding transition periods or cut scenes to variable-length content, matching it to the duration of fixed-length content and eliminating scheduling gaps
2Object-affected harmful factors
If objectionable material is removed from content, then content suitability for users is improved, but content duration changes and scheduling difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the duration of modified content by inserting transition periods or cut scenes to compensate for material removal, maintaining synchronized playback with original content versions
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the time parameter of content duration by adding transition periods to compensate for removed material, ensuring the modified content matches the duration of the original version for synchronized scheduling
3Manufacturing precision
If transition periods are inserted to synchronize content duration, then playback synchronization is improved, but content complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses transition periods or cut scenes as intermediary elements inserted between content segments, acting as mediators to bridge duration differences and achieve synchronized playback without fundamentally altering the content structure
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AI summary
Adjusting the duration of first content having a plurality of segments including: identifying at least one segment of the first content; deleting the at least one identified segment from the first content to form modified content; and inserting transition periods between segments remaining in the modified content, wherein the transition periods are inserted to adjust the duration of the modified content to a desired duration.