Text-Based Metadata Relaters for Media Segment Search and Rearrangement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current technologies do not allow media files to be rearranged and searched with the same ease as HTML for Web pages, making it difficult to manipulate and relate metadata to specific segments of media objects.
Innovation Solution
A text object is used to relate metadata to segments of media objects, stored in memory and accessible to a processor, allowing for the manipulation and display of segments based on metadata, with the text object including a sequence of relaters that specify segments and their corresponding metadata, enabling searching and rearrangement of segments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If media files are manipulated using traditional methods, then the media files can be edited and rearranged, but the process is much more difficult than manipulating Web pages
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer (text-based metadata structure) between the user and the media file. Instead of directly manipulating complex media files, users interact with a simplified text-based representation that describes media segments and their properties. This intermediary layer enables easy searching, filtering, and rearrangement of media content using simple text operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a textual copy or representation of media file metadata that can be manipulated independently from the actual media content. This text-based metadata structure serves as a copy that preserves the essential information about media segments while being much easier to edit and manipulate using standard text processing tools.
2Adaptability or versatility
If metadata is associated with media files, then the media files become searchable and rearrangeable, but the structure becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the media file into discrete segments with associated metadata for each segment. Each segment is independently described with its own metadata properties (time range, content description, etc.), allowing flexible searching and rearrangement of individual segments without affecting the entire media file structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses a text-based metadata structure as an intermediary that bridges between the media file and the user's search/query operations. This intermediary layer provides standardized fields and formats that enable consistent searching and rearrangement while keeping the underlying media file structure intact.
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AI summary
A metadata text file is used to make media files searchable and rearrangeable. The metadata file includes a sequence of relaters that relate items of metadata to segments of media files. The metadata file can be searched for an item of metadata and the item's relater used to locate the corresponding media file segment, or be used to “play” the metadata files by displaying segments in an order depending on the order of the relaters. New combinations of media file segments may be made by adding, deleting, or reordering the relaters in the metadata text file. The metadata file is used to relate metadata to media files in systems for making fan vids, for comparing the text of a book with a movie, or that use temperature readings from pots being used to cook a recipe to locate sections of a cooking video.