Interactive Content Duration Matching via Scene Interleaving
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Solution Overview
Problem
Digital media items, such as videos, often have fixed storylines, limiting user interaction and requiring users to select alternate storylines that may not match their preferred genre or duration, resulting in a subpar viewing experience.
Innovation Solution
A system that allows users to select a category and combines scenes from multiple interactive content items to create a combined content item matching the chosen category and desired duration, by identifying and interleaving scenes that match the user's preferences, using metadata to ensure coherence and continuity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If a user selects an option resulting in a storyline with a very short duration, then the user can quickly view a specific genre, but the storyline may restart and require the user to select alternative options, resulting in a subpar viewing experience
Solution Approach 1:
The system combines multiple content items into a single interactive content item by merging scenes from different sources. When the first content item's scenes in the selected genre are insufficient to fill the desired duration, the system automatically incorporates scenes from a second content item, ensuring the user receives a complete, uninterrupted viewing experience without manual reselection.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary analysis of available scenes from multiple content items before the user views the content. It pre-calculates which scenes from the first and second content items should be combined to achieve the desired genre and duration, so that when the user selects a genre, the complete interactive content item is ready for immediate playback without interruptions or restarts.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the digital video does not have a sufficient number of scenes directed to the genre of comedy, then the storyline may restart, but requiring the user to select alternative options directed to different genres results in a subpar viewing experience
Solution Approach 1:
The system makes a single interactive content item serve multiple functions by enabling it to adapt to different user preferences. The same first content item can be enhanced with scenes from a second content item to satisfy different genre preferences, making the system universally applicable to various viewing requests without requiring users to manually search through multiple separate content items.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary processing layer that automatically selects and combines scenes from multiple content items based on user preferences. This intermediary system handles the complexity of genre matching and scene selection, freeing the user from the burden of manually evaluating and selecting alternative options across different content items.
3Duration of action of moving object
If the system combines scenes from multiple interactive content items, then the total duration can match the predetermined duration, but the system must identify and interleave scenes from different content items
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the final interactive content item into distinct scenes that can be independently selected and combined. By breaking down the content into scene-level units with associated metadata, the system can precisely control which scenes from the first and second content items are included, making it easier to manage the complexity of combining multiple sources while achieving the desired total duration.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods are provided for presenting an interactive content item matching a user-selected category to a user for a desired duration. A user selects a category and selects a first interactive content item on a media system. The system calculates a total duration of a storyline from the selected interactive content item that matches the selected category (e.g., a genre “comedy”) and compares the calculated duration to a desired predetermined duration for which the user wishes to watch the selected show. If the system determines, for instance, that the total duration of the selected storyline is less than the predetermined duration, the system identifies scenes from another show and interleaves them with scenes from the first interactive content item to generate a combined interactive content item that satisfies the user viewing preferences.