Media Player Circuit Integrating Geographic Metadata Retrieval
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of video content lack an integrated and automatic way to access geographical information related to the events within video streams, requiring manual interaction or separate applications to enhance their viewing experience.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that automatically identifies addressable video streams, retrieves geographic metadata, and displays location information to provide a geographic context for events within the video stream, allowing concurrent presentation and dynamic aggregation of location data based on user preferences and relationships between events.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If manual interaction is used to access geographical information, then users can obtain location data, but the process requires significant user effort and time
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically retrieves geographic metadata and location information without requiring user intervention. The media player circuit detects the media stream, automatically queries for geographic metadata, retrieves location data, and displays it to the user, making the system serve itself rather than requiring manual user actions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-fetching and caching geographic metadata associated with media streams. When a user selects a media stream, the location information is already retrieved and ready for immediate display, eliminating the need for users to manually search or wait for data retrieval.
2Loss of information
If separate applications are used to access geographical information, then location data can be obtained, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the geographic information retrieval functionality directly into the media player circuit, merging what were previously separate applications (media player and geographic information system) into a single integrated system. This allows users to access location data without launching separate applications, reducing system complexity from the user perspective.
Solution Approach 2:
The media player circuit is designed with multi-functionality, serving both as a media playback device and a geographic information retrieval system. The same circuit that plays media streams also automatically queries, retrieves, and displays geographic metadata and location information, eliminating the need for separate dedicated applications.
3Loss of information
If geographic metadata is automatically retrieved, then location information is provided concurrently with video, but data retrieval time is required
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-fetching geographic metadata when the media stream is selected or loaded, before the user actually begins viewing. This allows the location information to be ready for immediate concurrent display with the video content, minimizing any perceived delay during actual viewing.
Solution Approach 2:
The system maintains continuous useful action by keeping the geographic metadata retrieval process ongoing in the background during media stream playback. The location information is continuously updated and synchronized with the video content, ensuring that geographic context is always available without interrupting the viewing experience.
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AI summary
In one embodiment, a method comprises identifying, by a device, an addressable video stream selected for viewing by a user of the device; obtaining, by the device, geographic metadata for the addressable video stream in response to the device identifying the addressable video stream, the geographic metadata including a location metadata element identifying a geographic location that describes a corresponding identifiable event within the addressable video stream; retrieving, by the device, location information about the geographic location based on the corresponding location metadata element; and displaying by the device the location information to the user, for presentation to the user of the location information that provides a geographic context for the identifiable event.