Sequencing Content for Home Entertainment Systems
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current home entertainment systems, despite advances in signal processing power, lack features for seamlessly interleaving and managing multiple content sources during viewing events, such as inserting alternative content during commercial breaks, which limits the user's ability to enhance the viewing experience for guests.
Innovation Solution
A system that includes a remote processing tablet for pre-viewing and sequencing content, allowing users to cue and alter video content by using hand gestures, enabling the interleave of multiple content sources into a main display, with only changing graphics sent digitally to the tablet for processing, and using pointers into time-delayed live content for editing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple content sources are interleaved and sequenced during viewing events, then the viewing experience is enhanced with features like alternative content during commercial breaks, but the system complexity increases for managing and synchronizing multiple content sources
Solution Approach 1:
A sequencing system acts as an intermediary between multiple content sources and the presentation device, managing the interleaving and synchronization of content from different sources. The system receives content from broadcast and internet sources, sequences them according to defined rules, and outputs the combined presentation, thereby enhancing versatility without requiring direct complex integration of all content sources.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary sequencing and preparation of content from multiple sources before the actual viewing event. Content is pre-processed, synchronized, and organized into a sequenced presentation structure in advance, allowing the system to manage complexity by preparing content configurations beforehand rather than handling real-time integration during playback.
2Adaptability or versatility
If content sequencing and editing features are added to home entertainment systems, then users can insert alternative content and modify presentations, but the ease of operation decreases due to the need for manual content management
Solution Approach 1:
The sequencing system automatically manages content from multiple sources by self-configuring the interleaving and synchronization parameters. The system autonomously handles the complex tasks of content registration, sequencing rule application, and presentation generation without requiring users to manually configure each parameter, thereby providing advanced content management capabilities while maintaining ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system merges the functionality of multiple separate devices into a single integrated sequencing system that handles content from broadcast sources, internet sources, and local sources. By combining content registration, sequencing, and presentation management into one unified system, the patent reduces the operational complexity users would face when managing multiple separate tools.
3Adaptability or versatility
If real-time content sequencing is implemented during live broadcasts, then users can switch channels during commercials and return to original content, but the reliability decreases due to synchronization challenges between multiple content sources
Solution Approach 1:
The sequencing system implements feedback mechanisms that continuously monitor the synchronization status of multiple content sources during live broadcasts. The system receives timing and synchronization information from broadcast and internet sources, adjusts the sequencing operations in real-time based on this feedback, and maintains reliable synchronization even when switching between content sources during live events.
Data Source
AI summary
Several implementations provide a system for sequencing, or cueing, content for presentation to an audience. One such implementation provides a low bit-rate system for use with, for example, a tablet. One particular implementation constructs a display plane including a first content source window indicating content from a first content source, and a timeline for sequencing the first content source into a presentation for a presentation device. The display plane is provided to a remote device, and command information is received from the remote device. The command information is for modifying the display plane. The display plane is modified based on the received command information. Another particular implementation receives the display plane, determines command information for modifying the display plane, and provides the command information to the remote device for modifying the display plane.