Media Control Packages for IoT Device Synchronization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current technologies lack an effective way to enhance the immersive experience of media consumption by integrating IoT devices with primary media content, failing to synchronize environmental controls with the content's context and timestamps.
Innovation Solution
An interactive media service platform that generates and delivers media control packages, aligning instructions with timestamps to control IoT devices such as lighting, HVAC, and secondary displays to augment the media experience, synchronizing these controls with primary content events.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If IoT devices are integrated with primary media content, then the immersive experience is enhanced, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a media control package as an intermediary component that bridges the primary media content and IoT devices. This control package contains timing information and control instructions, acting as a mediator that translates media content into actionable device commands without requiring direct integration between the media source and devices, thus reducing overall system complexity while enhancing immersion.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the media content into discrete time intervals or segments, each associated with specific control instructions for IoT devices. By dividing the media playback into manageable segments with corresponding control commands, the system can synchronize device actions with content events without managing complex continuous integration, thereby reducing system complexity while maintaining immersive experience.
2Adaptability or versatility
If environmental controls are synchronized with content timestamps, then the engagement is enhanced, but the control precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The media control package is generated in advance with pre-calculated timing information and control instructions aligned to specific timestamps in the media content. By preparing the synchronization data beforehand during content encoding or packaging, the system avoids the need for real-time precise calculations during playback, reducing the precision requirements during actual device control while maintaining high engagement through accurate synchronization.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple IoT devices are controlled simultaneously, then the immersive experience is enhanced, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the control of multiple IoT devices into a single unified media control package that is delivered together with the primary media content. This control package contains aggregated control instructions for all targeted devices, allowing them to be synchronized and coordinated through a single control mechanism rather than requiring separate control systems for each device, thus reducing overall system complexity while enhancing the immersive experience through coordinated multi-device control.
Data Source
AI summary
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining, from a network server device, first information regarding a first device, generating a media control package based on the first information, wherein the media control package relates to primary content to be presented, wherein the primary content is associated with a first timestamp that corresponds to a first event or context in the primary content, and wherein the media control package includes a first instruction for controlling the first device when a playback position of the primary content corresponds to the first timestamp, and causing the media control package to be provided to the network server device to enable augmentation of a presentation of the first event or context via control of the first device, in accordance with the first instruction, when the playback position of the primary content corresponds to the first timestamp. Other embodiments are disclosed.