Media Player System for Automatic Archive Creation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing media playback systems require manual archiving and handling of recording media, which is cumbersome and inefficient, especially when dealing with multiple media formats and obfuscation schemes that can cause read errors and data loss.

Innovation Solution

A media player system that automatically creates a media archive by concurrently reading and archiving content from recording media, using a media analysis component to identify valid data segments and handle obfuscation, and a transcoder to re-encode content for efficient storage and playback.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If manual archiving and handling of recording media is used, then media content can be stored, but the process is cumbersome and inefficient

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvearchiving efficiencyVSAvoidmanual handling complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically detects recording media, analyzes content, and creates archives without requiring manual user intervention for each step, allowing the system to serve itself in the archiving process

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The media analysis component performs preliminary analysis of the recording medium to identify valid data segments and obfuscation schemes before the actual archiving process begins, preparing the system in advance for efficient content extraction

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If obfuscation schemes are used in recording media, then data security is improved, but read errors and data loss occur

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata securityVSAvoiddata loss

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system detects and analyzes obfuscation schemes that were originally designed to prevent reading, then uses this detected information to properly interpret and extract the obfuscated content, converting the harmful obfuscation into a beneficial feature that enables secure yet readable archiving

Inventive Principle:

Principle #22Blessing in disguise (Convert harm into benefit)

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple media formats are supported, then versatility is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemedia format compatibilityVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The media analysis component acts as an intermediary that standardizes the interface between diverse recording media formats and the archiving system, analyzing and adapting content from different formats through a unified process

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system employs a universal media analysis component that can handle multiple media formats and obfuscation schemes through a single standardized interface, allowing one component to perform multiple functions across different media types

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

4Measurement precision

If automatic media analysis is performed, then archiving accuracy is improved, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata identification accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The media analysis component performs analysis at a level sufficient to identify valid data segments and obfuscation schemes without over-analyzing every detail, applying just enough analysis to enable accurate archiving while avoiding unnecessary processing time

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS10070095B2System and method for automatically creating a media archive from content on a recording medium

Publication Date: 2018.09.04 INTEL CORP

AI summary

A media player may include a media reader to read media content from a recording medium inserted into the media reader. The media player may also include a media analysis component to identify one or more valid portions of the recording medium containing media content and one or more invalid portions of the recording medium without media content. In one embodiment, the media player includes an archival component to store the media content from the one or more valid portions in a storage medium and a playback component to play back the one or more valid portions of the media content from the storage medium concurrently with the identification of the one or more valid portions by the media analysis component and the storage of the media content by the archival component.