Multimedia Markup Composition via Scene Area Media Segmentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current multimedia technologies, such as HTML and SMIL, are inadequate for spatially and temporally arranging and synchronizing multimedia elements, as they cannot configure scenes with multiple areas and media levels, limiting their ability to support advanced multimedia services.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that divide multimedia elements into scene, area, and media levels, configuring a markup with scene composition, area description, and multimedia description information to enable spatial and temporal composition, and provide synchronization between multimedia elements, allowing for scene configuration in browsers that do not support extensible markup.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If HTML is used for multimedia composition, then ease of operation is improved, but functionality is insufficient for temporal composition and synchronization
Solution Approach 1:
The markup is segmented into three distinct levels: scene level (spatial arrangement), area level (temporal arrangement), and media level (individual multimedia elements). This segmentation allows HTML to handle ease-of-use aspects while the structured markup provides advanced multimedia composition and synchronization capabilities.
2Adaptability or versatility
If SMIL is used for multimedia composition, then functionality is improved, but device complexity increases due to requiring separate player
Solution Approach 1:
The markup is designed to be universally compatible with existing HTML rendering environments while providing SMIL-like multimedia composition capabilities. This eliminates the need for separate dedicated players, allowing standard web browsers to render the multimedia compositions directly.
3Device complexity
If multimedia elements are arranged without scene-area-media division, then device complexity is reduced, but functionality is insufficient for configuring scenes with multiple areas
Solution Approach 1:
The markup structure divides multimedia composition into three hierarchical levels: scene (spatial arrangement of multiple areas), area (temporal arrangement within a region), and media (individual multimedia elements). This segmentation enables complex scene configuration with multiple areas and temporal arrangements while maintaining manageable device complexity through standardized markup syntax.
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AI summary
A method of configuring a markup for composition of multimedia elements in a multimedia communication system is provided. The method includes configuring area description information corresponding to each of a plurality of areas included in a scene, configuring multimedia description information corresponding to at least one multimedia included in each of the plurality of areas, configuring scene composition information describing spatial composition and temporal composition of each of the plurality of areas, and configuring a markup including the scene composition information, the area description information, and the multimedia description information.