Conversation Video Generation for Immersive Social Viewing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users often find it difficult to engage in lively conversations about thematic content with others who have not seen the content, have forgotten it, or are unavailable, lacking an immersive experience similar to group discussions among friends who have viewed the content together.

Innovation Solution

A video community system that generates conversation videos by receiving and processing member dialogue videos, comparing them with modified thematic content events marked with anchor points and keywords, to create an emulated conversation experience similar to a group discussion, incorporating selected videos and audio commentary from community members and knowledgeable individuals.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If users view thematic content alone or with limited individuals, then content accessibility is improved, but conversation quality deteriorates because others may not have seen the content, have forgotten it, or are unavailable

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent accessibilityVSAvoidconversation quality
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system creates a copy of the group discussion experience by capturing dialogue videos from multiple community members who have viewed the content together, then delivering this recorded conversation to individual users. This allows users to access the content individually while still experiencing the social interaction of a group discussion, resolving the contradiction between content accessibility and conversation quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Ease of operation

If social networking systems provide one-sided commentary from other individuals, then user input capability is improved, but interaction experience deteriorates because users cannot have lively two-way conversations

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser input capabilityVSAvoidinteraction experience
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges video commentary from multiple different community members into a single integrated conversation video, combining their opinions and reactions into one cohesive social interaction experience. This allows users to access diverse perspectives while experiencing the dynamics of a real group discussion, resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and interaction experience.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS11743514B2Apparatus, systems and methods for a content commentary community
Publication Date: 2023.08.29 DISH BROADCASTING CORP
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AI summary

A video community system that provides conversation videos to a member who is one of a plurality of community members. The system can include a conversation video storage medium that stores conversation videos that are each associated with one of a plurality of thematic content events; and a member interface that couples the video community system to a plurality of user devices. The member interface receives a user request from the requesting community member for a conversation video that is associated with a particular thematic content event. In response, the video community system accesses the conversation video from the conversation video storage medium that is associated with the particular thematic content event identified in the user request. The video community system communicates the accessed conversation video and at least a portion of the particular thematic content event to the requesting community member's device for concurrent display.