Media Editing Timeline Interface for Overlapping Capture Times
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional video editing tools are cumbersome and time-consuming when combining media data from multiple sources, as selecting frames or segments from different files requires navigating through multiple instances of media data, making it difficult to efficiently produce a single output file.
Innovation Solution
A user-friendly interface and methodology for time-based media editing that displays media data from different sources aligned by capture time, allowing for the identification of overlapping regions and applying styles to combine frames within these regions, thereby producing an output media data that accounts for time relationships between overlapping media data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If conventional video editing tools are used to combine media data from multiple sources, then media data can be combined into a single output file, but the process of selecting frames and segments is cumbersome and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a timeline dimension that organizes media data from multiple sources along a time axis. This allows users to visually align and select overlapping frames across different media files simultaneously, transforming the complex multi-file navigation into a simplified temporal selection process on a unified timeline interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges multiple media data instances from different sources into a single integrated timeline representation. This consolidation allows the system to handle multiple files as one coordinated structure, enabling simultaneous selection and combination of overlapping segments across all sources without requiring separate operations for each file.
2Productivity
If media data from multiple sources are combined using conventional tools, then a single output file can be produced, but it requires navigating through multiple instances of media data which is difficult and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The timeline interface serves multiple functions simultaneously: it displays media data from various sources, aligns them by capture time, identifies overlapping regions, and enables selection for combination. This multi-functional design eliminates the need for separate tools for each operation, simplifying the overall interface while improving output generation efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary alignment of media data from multiple sources along the timeline based on capture time before the user needs to select frames. This pre-organization of data in temporal order eliminates the need for users to manually navigate and align multiple files, reducing interface complexity while maintaining high productivity.
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AI summary
Systems and methods of editing media data are described. One such method includes displaying a representation of a first and second media data instances. Each media data instance is displayed along a corresponding one of a plurality of lines at a corresponding one of a plurality of positions. The corresponding position is chosen in accordance with a capture time associated with the media data instances, such that when the media data instances have overlapping capture times the media data instances with overlapping capture times are displayed on different ones of the lines. The method further includes determining an overlap region for the first media and second media data instances having overlapping capture times. The method further includes combining a plurality of frames within the overlap region of the first media data instance and the second media data instance according to an overlap style to produce an output media data.