Multimedia Enrichment Rendering Zone Aspect Ratio Adaptation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies fail to optimally render multimedia content with a different width/height ratio than the rendering zone, leading to the display of black bars and a suboptimal user experience, while also inefficient in terms of storage and transmission.
Innovation Solution
A method of enriching multimedia content by identifying and processing enrichment data that complements the source content, allowing for optimal rendering in a zone with a different width/height ratio, using metadata to represent the enrichment content without increasing the content size, and utilizing eye-tracking for real-time updates.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If black bars are displayed to fill the rendering zone when content format differs from rendering zone aspect ratio, then the rendering zone is completely utilized, but the user experience is impaired and the black bars are perceived as an annoyance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary processing system that generates enrichment content from the source multimedia content. This enrichment content serves as a mediator that fills the black bar regions with relevant visual information derived from the original content, thereby eliminating the harmful black bars while maintaining proper aspect ratio rendering
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a copy of relevant portions of the source multimedia content and places it in the black bar regions. This copying approach allows the rendering zone to be fully utilized by displaying additional relevant content from the same source, transforming the wasted black bar space into useful visual information
2Quantity of substance
If enrichment content is transmitted as metadata to enable format adaptation, then storage and transmission efficiency is maintained, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential enrichment data from the full enrichment content and transmits it as compact metadata. This extraction approach separates the essential information needed for format adaptation from the complete visual content, significantly reducing data transmission requirements while maintaining the ability to reconstruct the enrichment content at the rendering device
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary processing of the source multimedia content to generate enrichment content and extract its essential characteristics before transmission. This preliminary action prepares the data in advance, allowing the receiving device to efficiently reconstruct and utilize the enrichment content without performing complex processing during real-time rendering
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AI summary
A method of enrichment of at least one source multimedia content for rendering on a device is disclosed. A rendering zone has a width/height ratio different from the width/height ratio of the source multimedia content. In one aspect, the method comprises identifying, from the source multimedia content, of at least one enrichment content intended to be rendered in a region of the rendering zone distinct from a region for rendering the source multimedia content. And these enriching the source multimedia content, taking into account of the at least one identified enrichment content and delivering at least one enriched multimedia content comprising at least one piece of enrichment data representative of a rendering of the enrichment content in a region of the rendering zone distinct from a region for rendering the source multimedia content.