Set-Top Box Video Sharing via Messaging Client
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for sharing video content from a television to a mobile phone require significant user effort and result in reduced audio and video quality, as they typically involve capturing content on a smartphone rather than utilizing the television's content directly.
Innovation Solution
A system where a mobile phone and a media processor, such as a set-top box, form a natively integrated device, allowing video content to be shared without installing an application on the mobile phone. The system receives signals to initiate sharing, obtains video content from a cache, edits and converts it for transmission via messaging, and enables presentation on a recipient device.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If video content is captured using a smartphone's video recording feature, then sharing is enabled, but audio and video quality are reduced and significant user effort is required
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a messaging application as an intermediary between the television and smartphone. The messaging app accesses video content directly from the television's cache or stream, eliminating the need for smartphone camera recording. This mediator approach allows high-quality direct content transfer while simplifying user interaction to just initiating the share through the messaging interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The messaging application performs multiple functions: it serves as both a communication platform and a video sharing bridge between television and smartphone. By making the messaging app universal for both text messaging and video content sharing, the system eliminates the need for separate dedicated video sharing applications or using the smartphone camera, thereby reducing user effort while maintaining quality.
2Productivity
If video content is shared through traditional methods, then sharing is achieved, but the process requires significant user effort and complex operations
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service by allowing the messaging application to automatically access and transfer video content from the television's cache or stream. Once the user initiates the share function within the messaging app, the system handles content retrieval, formatting, and transmission automatically without requiring manual camera operation, editing, or complex sharing steps.
Solution Approach 2:
The television maintains a cache of video content in advance, which the messaging application can directly access when sharing is requested. This preliminary caching action eliminates the need for real-time capture or complex processing during the sharing moment, significantly improving sharing efficiency while minimizing user effort to just selecting the content to share.
3Manufacturing precision
If video content is obtained from television cache, then quality is maintained, but device integration and access protocols are required
Solution Approach 1:
The messaging application serves as a universal interface that handles both communication and video content sharing across different devices. By making the messaging app multi-functional and device-agnostic, the system reduces the need for device-specific integration protocols and custom applications, thereby maintaining video quality through direct cache access while minimizing system integration complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that facilitates sharing, by a mobile phone user, content that the user has viewed on a television coupled to a media processor. A message is initiated via a messaging client of the mobile phone, and a video clip is obtained by the mobile phone from the media processor. Additional video content provided at the mobile phone is attached to the video clip. The format of the video clip is converted to enable presentation of the converted video clip at a recipient device; the converted video clip is transmitted to the recipient device via the messaging client. The media processor and the mobile phone form a natively integrated device, so that a video clip of the content can be produced and transmitted without installation of an application on the mobile phone.