Hierarchical Video Search Through Three-Dimensional Interactive Grids
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing video navigation technologies lack a comprehensive, interactive, and multi-dimensional approach for navigating and discovering video content, limiting user engagement and content discovery.
Innovation Solution
A three-dimensional interactive grid is implemented, comprising chapters, subchapters, containers, and nodes, allowing users to navigate and search video content across multiple dimensions, with containers holding video snippets and enabling hierarchical searches based on metadata and user interactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional video navigation is used, then the system is simple to implement, but user engagement and content discovery are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The video content is segmented into chapters and sub-chapters, creating a hierarchical structure that enables granular navigation. This segmentation allows users to access specific portions of video content without watching the entire video, thereby enhancing content discovery while maintaining a manageable system structure through organized divisions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a multi-dimensional navigation grid that adds spatial dimensions to video navigation. The grid matrix structure (rows and columns) creates a two-dimensional interface for navigating one-dimensional video content, enabling users to discover content through spatial relationships and patterns rather than linear playback only.
2Loss of information
If a multi-dimensional search system is implemented, then content discovery is enhanced, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-processes video content during ingestion to extract metadata, identify chapters, sub-chapters, and create the grid matrix structure. This preliminary action prepares the content in advance, enabling rapid multi-dimensional searching and navigation without requiring complex real-time processing when users interact with the system.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer (the navigation grid matrix) that sits between the user and the video content. This intermediary structure organizes content access points and metadata relationships, simplifying the complexity of multi-dimensional searching by providing a structured interface that mediates between user queries and the underlying video repository.
3Adaptability or versatility
If interactive navigation grids are used, then user engagement improves, but ease of operation decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The navigation grid implements local quality by allowing different levels of interaction at different granularities. Users can navigate at the chapter level for broad exploration or drill down to sub-chapter and specific video segment levels for precise content access. This localized differentiation of interaction depth enables intuitive operation while maintaining high navigational versatility.
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AI summary
In a method and system for performing a multi-dimensional search of video content, a displayed three-dimensional interactive grid may include a plurality of cells populated with video content in the form of named chapters and subchapters associated with each chapter, forming headers of the cells in a two-dimensional multiple column by multiple row arrangement. The cells may include containers of video content associated with each subchapter, representing the third dimension of the grid, with each container including one or more nodes of video snippets. A multi-dimensional search of the video content may be enabled to select a node and/or container. Selection may initiate a hierarchical search to display at least one or more new containers related to the selected node or container that are accessible in the presently displayed three dimensional interactive grid or in one or more different grids related to the video content of the selected node.