Media Content Boundary-Aware Encoding for Supplemental Content Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current media content encoding techniques fail to account for media content reference identifiers, leading to misalignment of supplemental content with respect to media content fragments during playback, resulting in discrepancies between various components of the media content and supplemental content.
Innovation Solution
The use of media content boundaries information to perform encoding, supplemental content stitching, and insertion, where target boundaries with higher accuracy are identified and utilized to align audio and video content, along with other types of content like thumbnails and subtitles, ensuring synchronized playback.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If media content encoding is performed without considering media content reference identifiers, then encoding complexity is reduced, but alignment accuracy between supplemental content and media content fragments deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by identifying and marking media content boundaries (reference identifiers) during the encoding process itself, before supplemental content is inserted or stitched. This allows the encoding system to pre-establish accurate alignment points without adding complex post-processing steps, resolving the contradiction between encoding complexity and alignment accuracy.
2Manufacturing precision
If media content is encoded with boundary awareness to ensure accurate supplemental content alignment, then alignment accuracy improves, but encoding complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies segmentation by dividing media content into discrete fragments based on identified boundaries (reference identifiers). This segmentation approach allows the encoder to process content in manageable segments with clear alignment points, achieving high alignment accuracy without requiring complex global processing of the entire media content stream.
3Productivity
If supplemental content is inserted or stitched without accurate boundary alignment, then processing speed is maintained, but content synchronization quality deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces media content boundaries (reference identifiers) as intermediary markers that facilitate the insertion and stitching of supplemental content. These boundary markers act as mediators between the media content and supplemental content, enabling accurate alignment without requiring complex real-time synchronization processing, thus maintaining processing speed while improving synchronization quality.
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AI summary
A system for utilizing media content reference point information to perform media content encoding, and supplemental content stitching and/or insertion. Media content can be encoded and packaged based on boundaries of the media content. The boundaries can be received from a third-party and/or generated via an automated process. Target boundaries can be selected based on accuracy levels associated with the received and/or generated boundaries. Supplemental content can be stitched and/or inserted into packaged media content based on audio and video content of the packaged media content being aligned.