Display Device Playback Resumption Across OTT Apps and Broadcast Channels
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face inconvenience in continuing to watch content after playback is stopped, as they need to remember the application and channel to resume viewing, especially for OTT media and broadcast content.
Innovation Solution
A display device and method that stores information on applications, contents, and playback time points, allowing users to easily resume playback from the stopped point through a user interface screen, identifying and executing the appropriate application or channel.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the user stops watching content through an OTT application or broadcast channel, then the current playback is terminated, but the user loses track of the application and channel information needed to resume viewing
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by storing application information, content information, and playback time point information in memory before the user needs to resume playback. This ensures that when the user wants to continue watching, all necessary information is already prepared and available, eliminating the need to search for the original application or channel.
Solution Approach 2:
The processor acts as an intermediary that manages the connection between the user and the content playback system. It stores and retrieves application information, content information, and playback time points, serving as a mediator that reconstructs the playback context without requiring the user to manually search for the original source.
2Ease of operation
If the user needs to find the original application or channel to resume playback, then playback can be continued, but the user experience becomes inconvenient and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by storing application information, content information, and playback time point information in memory before the user needs to resume playback. This ensures that when the user wants to continue watching, all necessary information is already prepared and available, eliminating the need to search for the original application or channel.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides self-service by automatically managing the playback resumption process. When the user selects to resume playback, the processor automatically retrieves the stored application information, content information, and playback time point, then executes the application and plays the content from the correct time point without requiring manual intervention to find the original source.
3Reliability
If the system stores detailed information on applications, contents, and playback time points, then playback can be seamlessly resumed, but the data storage requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the essential information needed for playback resumption: application information (to identify which application to execute), content information (to identify which content to play), and playback time point information (to resume at the correct position). By extracting only these critical elements rather than storing all possible data, the system maintains high playback resumption accuracy while minimizing data storage requirements.
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AI summary
An example display device includes a display; a memory configured to store a plurality of applications that provide a content playback service; and a processor configured to: store information on the plurality of applications, information on a plurality of contents, and information on a point of time when playback is stopped in the memory when the playback of the plurality of contents played through the plurality of applications is stopped, and display a user interface (UI) screen for playing the plurality of contents from the point of time when the playback is stopped on the display using the information stored in the memory, when an application that provides a continuous content playback service is executed.