Media Guidance Application for Sporting Event Referee Decision Analysis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems do not provide a way for users to automatically compare the consistency of referees' decisions in sporting events with past decisions, making it difficult for viewers to assess if a referee's ruling is consistent with previous interpretations and rules.
Innovation Solution
A media guidance application that detects stoppages in sporting events, extracts metadata from audio, video, and subtitle streams to identify ambiguous decisions, and compares them with historical similar situations from other events, generating video clips of analogous situations for display.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a media guidance application automatically analyzes and compares referee decisions with historical data, then decision consistency and transparency are improved, but system complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-processes and stores referee decision data from historical sporting events in a structured database format during off-peak times. This preliminary action allows the system to have historical data ready for comparison when analyzing current referee decisions, reducing real-time processing complexity while maintaining reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary processing layer that includes audio stream analysis, subtitle stream analysis, and video stream analysis components. This intermediary layer translates raw media data into structured decision metadata that can be efficiently compared with historical data, reducing the complexity of direct comparison operations.
2Measurement precision
If the system processes multiple media streams (audio, video, subtitles) to detect stoppages and extract decision metadata, then measurement precision of ambiguous situations is improved, but use of energy and processing time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a multi-pass analysis approach where it first performs subtitle stream analysis to identify potential stoppage events, then selectively applies more energy-intensive audio and video stream analysis only to those identified events. This partial action approach maintains high detection accuracy while reducing overall energy consumption compared to analyzing all three streams continuously.
Solution Approach 2:
The system maintains continuous monitoring of subtitle streams to detect stoppage keywords, providing a continuous low-energy detection mechanism. When stoppages are detected, the system continuously analyzes audio and video streams to extract decision metadata, ensuring no useful information is lost while optimizing energy usage through selective processing.
3Loss of information
If the system generates and displays video clips of similar historical situations, then user understanding and transparency are improved, but loss of time for real-time playback increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates simplified video clip copies of historical referee decisions that capture the essential elements of similar situations. These copied video segments are pre-processed and stored in a database, allowing the system to retrieve and display them during live playback without requiring extensive real-time processing, thus minimizing time loss while maintaining information transparency.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-retrieves and buffers similar historical video clips from the database before they are needed during live playback. This preliminary action ensures that when a referee decision is analyzed and similar situations are identified, the corresponding video clips are already available for immediate display, minimizing disruption to real-time playback and reducing time loss.
Data Source
AI summary
A media guidance application may provide similar media content based on user utterances responsive to ambiguous determinations at sporting events. The media guidance application may detect a user utterance and may identify a situation within the sporting event that the user was referring to. The media guidance application may compare metadata of the identified situation/segment with metadata of a plurality of historical ambiguous events, and determine, based on the comparing, a historical ambiguous event that corresponds to the segment/situation. The media guidance application may generate for display video including the historical ambiguous event that corresponds to the segment.