Media Management Sync for Real-Time Multi-Source Audio Video
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Solution Overview
Problem
Challenges exist in synchronizing multiple audio and video inputs in real-time during recording, particularly in live broadcasting applications, leading to delays and complex editing processes to ensure synchronized audio-visual media flow.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for synchronizing multiple audio inputs with a video input by receiving and processing data inputs through a media management system, executing a synchronization procedure to generate a synchronized audio-video file, which includes manipulating volume levels, playback speeds, and timing intervals to ensure real-time synchronization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple audio inputs are synchronized with video input in real-time during recording, then the audio-visual media flow meets visual and audial criteria, but the system complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-processing audio inputs through buffering and pre-synchronization operations before the actual recording. The system prepares audio data in advance, adjusting timing and synchronizing multiple audio sources before they are combined with video, thereby reducing the complexity of real-time synchronization during recording while maintaining high synchronization accuracy.
2Loss of time
If synchronization procedure is executed on multiple data inputs, then synchronized audio-video file is generated without post-processing, but processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements continuity of useful action by executing the synchronization procedure continuously during the recording process rather than as a separate post-processing step. The media management system maintains continuous synchronization of multiple audio inputs with video input throughout recording, eliminating the need for post-processing while distributing computational load over time, thereby reducing peak processing resource requirements.
3Productivity
If volume levels, playback speeds, and timing intervals are manipulated for synchronization, then real-time synchronization is achieved, but the complexity of data processing increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary media management system that acts as a mediator between multiple data sources and the final output. This intermediary system handles the complex manipulations of volume levels, playback speeds, and timing intervals in a centralized manner, simplifying the overall system architecture by consolidating complex data processing operations in a dedicated component rather than distributing complexity across multiple sources.
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AI summary
Methods, systems, and computer program products for synchronizing a plurality of audio inputs may include receiving data inputs including a first data input, a second data input, and a third data input, from one or more data source, providing, as inputs to a media management system, the first data input, the second data input, the third data input, and data associated with a synchronization function with regard to synchronization of the data inputs for use by the media management system to generate an output, and executing a synchronization procedure on the first data input, the second data input, and the third data input to generate the output of the media management system, the output of the synchronization procedure of the media management system including a synchronized audio-video file combining the first data input, the second data input, and the third data input.