Timestamp Generation for Media Comments via Visual and Linguistic Analysis

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face difficulty in finding specific parts of media posts, such as videos or audio clips, when comments reference particular sections, as they need to manually scroll through the content, lacking an efficient way to jump directly to the mentioned timestamps.

Innovation Solution

A system that automatically generates and adds timestamps to comments based on visual and linguistic analysis, using Convolutional Neural Networks and linguistic intent correlation analysis, enabling users to click on these timestamps to navigate directly to the relevant parts of the media post, with the ability to update timestamps through aggregate user adjustments.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of time

If users manually scroll through media posts to find specific parts referenced in comments, then they can locate the content, but it consumes excessive time and reduces user efficiency

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetime to locate specific contentVSAvoiduser effort to find content
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of the media post content (visual analysis using CNN and linguistic analysis) before user interaction, pre-identifying key segments and their timestamps. When a user comments, the system can immediately correlate the comment with pre-analyzed segments, eliminating the need for users to manually search through the content.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces timestamps as an intermediary element between comments and media content. These timestamps serve as direct links that bridge the gap between user commentary and specific content segments, allowing users to jump directly to relevant parts without manual scrolling.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If the system performs comprehensive visual and linguistic analysis to accurately determine timestamps, then timestamp accuracy improves, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetimestamp accuracyVSAvoidsystem processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system divides the complex analysis task into separate modules: visual analysis using Convolutional Neural Networks for video content, linguistic analysis for text content, and correlation analysis to match comments with content segments. This segmentation allows each module to specialize in its function while working together to achieve accurate timestamp generation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system employs multi-functional analysis capabilities that can handle both visual content (video frames) and linguistic content (transcripts, comments) through unified processing pipelines. The correlation analysis module serves multiple purposes by working with both visual and linguistic features to determine the most relevant content segments.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Measurement precision

If the system uses advanced analysis methods like CNN and TF-IDF to determine relevant content segments, then correlation accuracy improves, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecorrelation accuracyVSAvoidprocessing speed
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs visual analysis and linguistic analysis of the media post in advance, before comments are submitted. This pre-processing creates ready-to-use feature representations and segmentations that can be quickly queried when comments arrive, reducing the processing time required at comment submission time while maintaining high correlation accuracy through methods like TF-IDF.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11328031B2Automatically generated timestamps based on comment
Publication Date: 2022.05.10 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

In an approach for automatically generating and adding a timestamp to a comment left by a user on a media post based on a specific part of the media post referenced in the comment, responsive to receiving a comment on a media post, a processor completes a visual analysis and linguistic analysis of the media post. A processor completes a linguistic analysis of the comment. A processor performs a linguistic intent correlation analysis to determine a part of the media post that correlates to the comment. A processor determines a timestamp for the part of the media post. A processor adds the timestamp to the comment.