Media Navigation Preview Selection Using Confidence Scores
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional approaches for providing videos make it difficult for users to determine interesting or relevant portions within a video, leading to inefficient user experience during media navigation.
Innovation Solution
Systems and methods that identify and rank media content items based on search queries, selecting image frame previews with confidence scores for viewer interest, and providing them during sequential video presentation, utilizing object detection, facial recognition, and social signals.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional video playback is used without preview selection, then the system is simple and requires minimal processing, but users cannot efficiently locate interesting or relevant video portions
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-selecting and preparing image frame previews from video content before user interaction. The preview selection module identifies and stores candidate frames in advance, so that when users need to navigate video content, relevant previews are already prepared and ready for immediate display, eliminating the need for real-time processing during user interaction.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces image frame previews as an intermediary element between the user and the full video content. These previews serve as a mediator that helps users understand video content without having to watch the entire video, facilitating easier navigation and selection of interesting portions while reducing the direct complexity of user-video interaction.
2Reliability
If comprehensive video analysis is performed to select all possible interesting portions, then all relevant content can be found, but the time and computational resources required increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies partial action by selecting a limited number of representative image frame previews rather than analyzing every possible video segment. The preview selection module identifies key frames that capture essential content moments, providing sufficient coverage of interesting portions without the need for exhaustive analysis of the entire video content.
Solution Approach 2:
By performing preliminary selection of candidate previews and pre-processing video content to identify potential interesting portions in advance, the system reduces the time required during actual user interaction. The heavy computational work is done beforehand, allowing rapid display of relevant previews when users need to navigate video content.
3Reliability
If multiple image frame previews are selected for each media content item, then better coverage of interesting portions is achieved, but the quantity of data to be processed and displayed increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by selecting image frame previews with different characteristics or qualities for different media content items. Rather than uniformly selecting the same number of previews for all content, the system adapts the selection based on the specific properties of each video, such as its duration, content type, and identified interesting segments, optimizing the balance between coverage and data quantity.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can identify a set of media content items based on at least one search query. The set of media content items can be ranked based on information associated with one or more media content items in the set of media content items to produce a ranked set of media content items. The ranked set of media content items can be provided for sequential video presentation. A set of image frame previews can be selected for at least some media content items in the ranked set. Each image frame preview in the set of image frame previews can be selected based on a respective confidence score associated with viewer interest. One or more image frame previews, out of the set of image frame previews, can be provided during media navigation associated with the sequential video presentation.