Multi-Feed Video Channel Time-Shifting Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional client devices are limited in interacting with multiple video feeds presented as a single channel, offering only basic selection and playback controls, lacking advanced user interaction features such as pause, rewind, fast forward, and zoom.
Innovation Solution
Implementing systems and methods that allow client devices to control multiple video and audio feeds as a single channel, enabling user interaction through functions like pause, play, rewind, fast forward, slow, and zoom, with optional automatic control based on user inputs or predefined events.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional client devices present multiple video feeds as a single channel, then users can view multiple programs simultaneously, but user interaction control is limited to basic selection and playback only
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the control of multiple video feeds by allowing independent control of each feed within a multi-feed channel. Users can select specific feeds to apply control functions to, rather than controlling all feeds uniformly. This segmentation enables advanced interaction with individual feeds while maintaining the multi-feed presentation structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamic control capabilities where users can apply time-shifting functions (pause, rewind, fast forward, slow) to specific feeds within a multi-feed channel. The system dynamically adjusts playback state for selected feeds independently, allowing flexible interaction that adapts to user needs for different programs simultaneously.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users want advanced control functions like pause, rewind, fast forward, and zoom on multiple video feeds, then user interactivity is enhanced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the client device universally capable of handling multiple control functions across multiple feeds within a single channel. The system is designed to support pause, play, rewind, fast forward, slow, and zoom functions that can be applied to any selected feed, making the device multi-functional without requiring separate devices for each function.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary control layer between the user and the multiple video feeds. This intermediary system manages the complexity of controlling multiple feeds with advanced functions by providing a unified interface that handles feed selection, control function application, and coordination of multiple playback states, thereby reducing the perceived complexity for users.
3Ease of operation
If conventional systems allow only basic playback control on multi-feed channels, then device complexity is minimized, but user interactivity and customization are restricted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary buffering of video content to enable advanced control functions. By pre-buffering video data before playback, the system can support pause, rewind, and fast forward operations without requiring complex real-time processing, thus maintaining ease of operation while enabling enhanced user interactivity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent incorporates feedback mechanisms that respond to user inputs with appropriate control actions on selected feeds. The system provides feedback by executing pause, play, rewind, fast forward, slow, and zoom commands on user-selected feeds within multi-feed channels, enhancing user interactivity while maintaining straightforward operation through familiar control responses.
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AI summary
Systems and methods may provide for control of one or more feeds of a multi-feed channel. Such control may implement functions such as pausing, playing, rewinding, fast forwarding, slowing, replaying and zooming. The control may be selectively applied to the feeds so that one, selected ones or all of the feeds are controlled. Thus, implementations may allow a user to selectively interact with video feeds, as well as corresponding audio feeds, while viewing the multi-feed channel.