Display Recording Integration for Video Quality and Storage

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Solution Overview

Problem

Video recordings often poorly represent visual content from display devices due to interference, mismatched refresh rates, dynamic range issues, and quality limitations, leading to undesirable larger file sizes and storage constraints.

Innovation Solution

Capturing visual content at its source and incorporating it into the video recording to replace poorly represented content, using a system that generates a display recording based on detection and timestamps for accurate integration.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If visual content is captured using a recording device (camera), then the video recording can include the display device in the field of view, but the visual content quality is poor due to interference, mismatched refresh rates, and dynamic range issues

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevisual content qualityVSAvoidcontent representation accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a copy of the visual content by capturing the display output through the display device's own output interface rather than using an external recording device. This copy is then integrated into the video recording, replacing the poor-quality captured version while maintaining synchronization with the original scene.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Loss of information

If the recording device captures the display device screen, then the visual content can be included in the video recording, but the file size increases and storage requirements grow

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent representation accuracyVSAvoidstorage requirements
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the display output stream with the video recording stream at the processing level. By combining these streams and integrating the display content directly into the video recording, the system eliminates the need to store separate high-quality display recordings, thereby reducing overall storage requirements while maintaining content accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Productivity

If the recording device is used to capture visual content from the display device, then the video recording can be created, but the quality is limited by the recording device's capabilities

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevideo recording creationVSAvoidvisual content quality
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary processing system that receives both the display output and the video recording, synchronizes them using timestamps, and integrates the high-quality display content into the video recording. This intermediary system acts as a mediator that bridges the recording device and display device, enabling high-quality visual content incorporation without being limited by the recording device's native capabilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS10917679B2Video recording of a display device
Publication Date: 2021.02.09 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

A method, computer system, and a computer program product for video recording of a display device is provided. The present invention may include, recording, with a recording device, a source video having a field of view. The present invention may include, responsive to a record command, controlling a display device to generate a display recording of a visual content displayed by the display device. The present invention may include, obtaining the source video and the display recording. The present invention may include, responsive to the visual content displayed by the display device being visible in the field of view of the source video, incorporating the display recording into the source video so as to replace the visual content displayed by the display device visible in the source video with the display recording.