Media Content Widget for Selective Obstruction and Audio Modification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for censoring content on televisions are inflexible and struggle to synchronize censorship operations with the content being displayed, often censoring too much or too little based on user preferences, as they primarily operate at the service provider level rather than the user's equipment.
Innovation Solution
A television widget that can selectively obscure media content based on user-defined preferences by generating an instruction script to overlay objects or modify audio, using databases to store information on objectionable content occurrences and synchronizing these operations with the user's equipment, accounting for processing and transmission delays.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If content censorship is performed at the service provider level, then censorship operations are simplified and centralized, but the system becomes inflexible and cannot adapt to individual user preferences
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the censorship system into multiple independent components: a configuration module that stores user preferences, a detection module that identifies objectionable content, and an execution module that applies censorship. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently while maintaining overall system flexibility and reducing complexity through modular design.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamic censorship by allowing the system to adapt its behavior based on user-defined preferences and different content types. The censorship parameters are not fixed but can be dynamically adjusted according to user configuration, making the system flexible while maintaining manageable complexity through event-driven architecture.
2Measurement precision
If censorship operations are performed at user equipment, then user preferences can be accurately implemented, but synchronization challenges arise between censorship operations and content display
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-processing content to identify objectionable segments before actual playback. The system analyzes content metadata, timestamps, and content characteristics in advance, creating a censorship plan that is then executed during playback. This eliminates the need for real-time analysis during content delivery, achieving precise synchronization without adding processing delays.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary synchronization layer that acts as a mediator between the content delivery system and the censorship execution system. This intermediary component receives content timing information, adjusts censorship operation timestamps accordingly, and ensures precise alignment between censorship actions and content display without requiring direct coupling between systems.
3Ease of operation
If censorship is applied to all content uniformly, then implementation is simple, but the system censors too much or too little based on individual user preferences
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by allowing different censorship parameters to be configured for different types of content and different user preferences. Instead of a single uniform censorship rule, the system implements location-specific (content-specific) censorship parameters that can be independently adjusted. This enables simple default behavior while providing detailed customization options where needed, balancing ease of operation with adaptability.
Data Source
AI summary
A widget running on user equipment selectively obscures portions of media content according to user and/or service provider defined criteria. Information regarding potentially objectionable content in media content may be stored in databases. Based on the information regarding potentially objectionable content and the defined criteria, the database may provide censor instructions. The instructions may be executed by the widget to obscure the potentially objectionable content in media content that is accessed by the user equipment.