Media Playback Jump Control via Aggregated Interest Metadata
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional personal video recording and playback devices lack the ability to efficiently identify and jump to interesting portions of media content during playback, relying solely on user input and metadata generation for determining engaging moments.
Innovation Solution
A system that includes a processor and memory for receiving video content and metadata, generating user interfaces to display interesting portions, and allowing users to jump to these portions, with metadata aggregation from multiple devices to determine periods of high interest based on user inputs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional PVR devices rely solely on user input for determining interesting portions, then device complexity is reduced, but user engagement and content exploration efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines individual user interest inputs from multiple devices into aggregated metadata that identifies collectively interesting portions of media content. This merging approach enhances user engagement by leveraging collective intelligence while distributing the computational complexity across multiple devices rather than concentrating it in one system.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces metadata as an intermediary layer between user inputs and content delivery. This metadata aggregates interest information from multiple users and enables playback devices to automatically identify and jump to interesting portions, reducing the need for direct user interaction while improving engagement.
2Productivity
If the system aggregates metadata from multiple devices to determine interesting portions, then content exploration efficiency is improved, but loss of time for data collection and processing increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary aggregation of interest inputs from multiple devices and generates metadata identifying interesting portions before playback occurs. This advance preparation enables rapid content exploration during playback without real-time processing delays, as the interesting portions are pre-identified and ready for immediate access.
3Measurement precision
If the system provides detailed metadata indicating amounts of interest at multiple periods, then measurement precision of user interest is improved, but device complexity for processing and displaying metadata increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces complex mechanical or manual analysis of user interest with automated computational processing of metadata. The system systematically analyzes interest inputs, assigns quantitative amounts of interest to different time periods, and generates structured metadata that can be automatically processed and displayed without manual intervention.
Data Source
AI summary
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for collective determination of interesting portions of a video program, video tagging, and jump playback within the video program. A processor can obtain interest inputs for video content associated with a video program and can send the information to an aggregator server. The aggregator server can collect and analyze the information, determine interest indications for interesting portions of the video program, generate metadata, and send the metadata to devices. Devices can use the metadata to enable jump functionality. The metadata can be correlated with recorded content that corresponds to the video program to indicate interesting portions of the recorded content. A user interface can be presented. The user interface can include a timeline for the video program and controls to navigate to portions of the video program that are indicated as interesting by the metadata.