Interactive Story Editor Using Universal Media Container
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current content production systems are fragmented, requiring specialized expertise and costly research and development to integrate various types of content, making seamless development and production across multiple platforms challenging.
Innovation Solution
A multimedia toolset that uses an extended film language and common data infrastructure, combined with a multi-platform player, to enable seamless development and production of interactive stories by identifying and combining media, timing, branch, and interaction elements into a cohesive story flow.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If various types of content are integrated using conventional systems, then content variety and functionality are improved, but system complexity and technical expertise requirements increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal media container format that can hold multiple types of content (video, audio, text, images, sensors) and timing information in a single standardized structure. This allows diverse content to be integrated without requiring separate specialized systems for each content type, thereby improving content variety while avoiding the complexity increase that would result from integrating multiple separate systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of content representation by encoding timing information as discrete time stamps and synchronization data within the media container, rather than requiring external timing systems. This parameter change allows heterogeneous content to be synchronized through data-based timing relationships, reducing the need for complex external coordination systems.
2Manufacturing precision
If specialized technical expertise is used to integrate content, then integration quality is improved, but development cost and time consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the content integration process into distinct, standardized components: media elements with specific timing attributes, synchronization points, and predefined interaction types. This segmentation allows content to be integrated by assembling predefined building blocks rather than requiring custom integration logic, maintaining high integration quality while reducing development time and expertise requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses templates and predefined media container structures that can be copied and reused across different content integrations. By copying proven integration patterns and standardized container formats, the system maintains consistent integration quality without requiring developers to recreate integration logic for each new content set, thereby reducing both time and expertise requirements.
3Ease of manufacture
If a unified media container format is used, then ease of integration is improved, but flexibility in handling platform-specific requirements may be reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a nested structure where a universal media container format provides the outer framework for content integration, while allowing inner nested structures to contain platform-specific adaptations. The container can embed platform-specific data fields, format variations, and customization layers that maintain the simplified integration process at the outer level while providing the flexibility needed for platform-specific requirements internally.
Data Source
AI summary
An interactive dynamic narrative production system is provided that includes an editor tool set that facilitates collaboration to generate an interactive story file comprising a rich variety of media arranged together using story flow, branching, interaction, and timing elements. The system also includes a multiplatform player to allow for playback of the interactive story file on a variety of different platforms.