Mixed-Module Video Creation via Segmentation and Copying

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current video production and streaming technologies are time-consuming, expensive, and restrictive, requiring specialized skills and equipment, and do not allow for interactivity, meta-data embedding, or seamless integration with mobile devices, leading to inefficient content creation, viewing, and advertising.

Innovation Solution

The development of web-based tools for creating and playing mixed-media modules that integrate text, images, documents, narrations, and links in an interactive format, allowing for 'drag and drop' editing and easy updating, and can be embedded in mobile devices and web pages, enabling a rich, interactive, and updatable content experience.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If video content is produced using professional equipment and software, then video quality is improved, but production cost and time increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevideo qualityVSAvoidproduction time
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments video content into modular components (video clips, images, text, audio) that can be independently created, stored, and reused. This allows creators to assemble professional-quality content from pre-produced segments without needing to produce entire videos from scratch, significantly reducing production time while maintaining quality standards.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-producing and storing video segments, images, and other media assets in a library before they are needed. This advance preparation eliminates the need for time-consuming on-demand production, allowing rapid assembly of high-quality content using pre-vetted professional assets.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Manufacturing precision

If video content is produced with professional equipment and skills, then video quality is improved, but production cost increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevideo qualityVSAvoidproduction cost
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a copying mechanism where professional video segments, images, and media assets are created once by professionals and then copied and reused multiple times across different videos and projects. This eliminates the need for each creator to invest in expensive equipment and hire professional talent for every project, significantly reducing production costs while maintaining quality through reuse of proven assets.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Manufacturing precision

If video is rendered into a final product, then video quality is improved, but flexibility to make changes is lost

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevideo qualityVSAvoidflexibility to update
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the final video product into discrete, independently editable components (video segments, images, text overlays, audio tracks). Each segment can be modified, replaced, or updated without affecting the entire video, allowing continuous updates and changes while maintaining the quality of the rendered final product. This modular structure enables flexible content management and easy adaptation to changing requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

4Ease of operation

If video content is created with embedded metadata and interactivity, then user engagement is improved, but device compatibility decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser engagementVSAvoiddevice compatibility
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a universal video module format that functions across multiple device types and platforms. The standardized structure with embedded metadata and interactive elements is designed to be platform-agnostic, allowing the same video content to be consumed on mobile devices, tablets, desktops, and televisions without requiring device-specific versions or sacrificing interactivity and metadata capabilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

5Manufacturing precision

If video files are made larger with higher quality, then video quality is improved, but bandwidth consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevideo qualityVSAvoidbandwidth consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments video content into smaller, manageable clips that can be selectively streamed and cached. This segmentation allows the system to transmit only the necessary portions of high-quality video content rather than entire large files, reducing bandwidth consumption while maintaining quality. Segmented clips can also be pre-loaded and cached efficiently, further optimizing bandwidth usage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS10504555B2Systems and methods involving features of creation/viewing/utilization of information modules such as mixed-media modules
Publication Date: 2019.12.10 VERIZON PATENT & LICENSING INC
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AI summary

Systems and methods consistent with the present innovations are directed to implementations involving creation, viewing, playing, sharing and/or utilization of information modules, such as mixed-media modules.