Automated Content Compositing With Similarity-Based Sequencing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional methods for merging discrete content units from diverse themes and styles result in jarring transitions, lacking the coherence achieved by human editors.

Innovation Solution

An automated system using machine learning models extracts audio, image, and semantic features to generate start and end descriptors, and employs clustering and sequence prediction to create coherent content compilations without user templates.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If conventional automated methods merge discrete content units from diverse themes and styles, then productivity is improved through automation, but the coherence and quality of the composite content deteriorates due to jarring transitions

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveautomation efficiencyVSAvoidcontent coherence
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces manual editorial judgment with machine learning models that analyze audio, image, and semantic features. The system uses trained neural networks to automatically assess content unit compatibility and generate sequencing recommendations, substituting human cognitive processes with automated computational analysis while maintaining high coherence standards.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback loops where the machine learning model continuously evaluates the coherence of composite content and adjusts sequencing recommendations accordingly. User interactions and engagement metrics provide additional feedback signals that refine the model's understanding of coherent content transitions, enabling the system to improve its automated compositing decisions over time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If human editors manually curate content compilations, then content coherence and quality are improved, but productivity decreases due to time-consuming manual processes

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent coherenceVSAvoidediting efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables self-service automated compositing where the machine learning model independently analyzes content units, evaluates compatibility across multiple features, and generates sequencing recommendations without requiring manual editorial intervention. The system serves itself by automatically processing content compilations at scale while maintaining coherence standards previously achievable only through human editing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent extracts and analyzes audio, image, and semantic features from content units in advance, creating a comprehensive feature set that captures essential characteristics. This preliminary analysis enables the machine learning model to quickly assess compatibility and generate sequencing recommendations without requiring time-consuming manual review during the actual compositing process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Adaptability or versatility

If content units with different audio-visual characteristics are merged, then adaptability is improved by handling diverse content types, but the quality of composite content deteriorates due to abrupt transitions

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent type flexibilityVSAvoidtransition smoothness
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies different analysis and evaluation criteria to different content units based on their specific characteristics. The machine learning model extracts feature sets tailored to each content unit's audio-visual properties and evaluates transitions locally, considering the specific context of each adjacent pair. This localized approach enables smooth transitions between diverse content types by adapting the coherence assessment to each unique transition point.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transforms content units into standardized feature vectors that capture their essential audio-visual and semantic characteristics. By representing diverse content types in a common parameter space, the machine learning model can compare and evaluate compatibility using consistent metrics while preserving the unique characteristics of each content unit. This parameter transformation enables precise control over transition smoothness across different content types.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS12412105B2Automated compositing of content compilations
Publication Date: 2025.09.09 DISNEY ENTERPRISES INC
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AI summary

A system includes a computing platform having processing hardware and a memory storing a software code. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to receive multiple content units each including a start descriptor for an initial content segment and an end descriptor for a last content segment, identify the start descriptor and the end descriptor for each of the content units, and select a first content unit for beginning a content compilation. The processing hardware is further configured to execute the software code to determine multiple similarity metrics each comparing the end descriptor of the first content unit with the start descriptor of a respective one of the other content units, rank, using the similarity metrics, the other content units with respect to one another, select, based on the rank, a second content unit, and composite the content compilation using the second content unit.