Multimedia Cover Generation via Comment-Derived Time Periods

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing methods for generating cover dynamic pictures of multimedia files rely on manual operations, resulting in high labor costs and low efficiency, and often fail to accurately represent the essence of the multimedia content.

Innovation Solution

A method and device that obtain a multimedia file and its corresponding comment set, divide the playback duration into time periods, calculate comment status information for each period, screen out periods meeting a preset condition, and generate dynamic pictures based on these periods, selecting one as the cover dynamic picture.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If manual operations are used to generate cover dynamic pictures, then the pictures can be created with human judgment, but labor costs increase and efficiency decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequality of cover dynamic pictureVSAvoidefficiency of generating cover dynamic pictures
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically generates cover dynamic pictures by utilizing comment data from users watching the multimedia file. The server autonomously selects key moments based on comment density and generates corresponding dynamic pictures without requiring manual intervention, thereby improving efficiency while maintaining quality through data-driven selection.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Measurement precision

If manual operations are used to generate cover dynamic pictures, then the pictures can be created with human judgment, but labor costs increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequality of cover dynamic pictureVSAvoidlabor cost
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the mechanical manual operation system with an automated computational system. The server uses algorithms to analyze comment data, determine key moments, and generate dynamic pictures automatically, substituting human labor with automated processing while maintaining or improving selection quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Ease of operation

If traditional methods are used to select key moments, then the selection can be based on operator intuition, but the ability to represent the essence of multimedia content decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesimplicity of selection processVSAvoidessence of multimedia content
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses comment data as feedback from actual user viewing behavior to identify key moments. By analyzing where users pause, comment, or show high engagement, the system objectively determines which moments best represent the essence of the multimedia content, replacing subjective operator intuition with data-driven insights.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11373688B2Method and device of generating cover dynamic pictures of multimedia files
Publication Date: 2022.06.28 SHANGHAI BILIBILI TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

The present disclosure describes techniques for generating dynamic image covers of multimedia files. The disclosed techniques comprise obtaining a multimedia file and a plurality of comments associated with the multimedia file, wherein each of the plurality of comments corresponds to a time point of playing the multimedia file, and a duration of playing the multimedia file is divided into a plurality of time periods; determining a status corresponding to each of the plurality of time periods based on a subset of comments among the plurality of comments corresponding to each of the plurality of time periods; identifying at least one time period among the plurality of time periods based on determining that a status corresponding to the at least time period satisfies at least one predetermined rule; and generating a dynamic cover of the multimedia file based on images comprised in the multimedia file during the at least one time period.