Spatiotemporal Content Sequences via Knowledge Graph

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current data-driven and video analytics tools are inefficient in identifying semantic connections between original and edited digital media content, and the extracted information is often not structured in a queryable format, limiting it to low-level features.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented method that extracts information from digital media content, structures it into a knowledge graph, and composes new content based on spatial and temporal criteria from search queries, using machine learning and natural language processing to classify labels and associate concepts with fragments, allowing for the retrieval and composition of digital media content that meets user-defined queries.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If users manually search through entire digital media content using playback controls, then they can find specific events, but the process is time-consuming and inefficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesemantic search accuracyVSAvoidsearch time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically analyzing digital media content beforehand and structuring it into a knowledge graph with temporal and spatial relationships. This preprocessing enables rapid querying without manual playback, resolving the contradiction between search accuracy and time consumption.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

A knowledge graph serves as an intermediary data structure between raw digital media content and user queries. It enables efficient semantic search by representing events, objects, and their spatiotemporal relationships in a queryable format, eliminating the need for manual content scanning.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Loss of information

If existing video analytics tools extract information from digital media content, then information can be obtained, but the extracted information is not structured in a queryable format and is limited to low-level features

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation completenessVSAvoiddata structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments digital media content into discrete events and objects, representing them as separate nodes in a knowledge graph. This segmentation preserves detailed information while organizing it into a structured format that balances completeness with queryability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system transforms flat video data into a multi-dimensional knowledge graph structure incorporating temporal and spatial dimensions. This dimensional transformation enables complex semantic queries while maintaining information completeness through structured relationships.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentUS11875550B2Spatiotemporal sequences of content
Publication Date: 2024.01.16 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

One or more processor can automatically identify, structure and retrieve spatial and/or temporal sequences of digital media content according to semantic specification. Digital media content can be received and information from digital media content can be extracted. Based on the information, a knowledge graph can be constructed or structured to include at least one of spatial and temporal representation of the digital media content. A search query can be received associated with the digital media content. Based on traversing the knowledge graph structure according to at least one of spatial and temporal criterion mapped from the search query, new digital media content can be composed which meets the search query.