Split-Screen Livestream Playback for Event Highlight Review

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing livestreaming systems require users to exit and rejoin the livestreaming interface to watch event highlights, making the process cumbersome.

Innovation Solution

A display method and apparatus that allows simultaneous split-screen display of livestreaming and playback of event highlights, enabling users to watch the livestreaming and playback the target segment without additional operations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If users exit the livestreaming interface to watch event highlights, then they can review highlight segments, but the operation process becomes cumbersome

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveability to review highlight segmentsVSAvoidoperation process
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the livestreaming interface and the highlight playback interface into a single unified interface. The progress bar is displayed within the livestreaming interface, allowing users to access and playback highlight segments without exiting the current interface. This integration eliminates the need to switch between interfaces, thereby simplifying the operation process while maintaining the ability to review highlights.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Reliability

If users use a progress bar to playback highlight segments, then they can review specific segments, but they need to exit and restart the livestream to continue watching

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveability to playback specific segmentsVSAvoidtime to exit and restart livestream
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent enables continuous watching of the livestream by displaying the progress bar and playback controls within the same livestreaming interface. After reviewing highlight segments through the progress bar, users can immediately continue watching the livestream without exiting or restarting it. This maintains the continuity of the viewing experience and eliminates time loss associated with interface switching.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

3Adaptability or versatility

If the progress bar is displayed in the livestreaming interface, then users can access highlight segments, but the interface becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveability to access highlights during livestreamVSAvoidlivestreaming interface
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the interface by placing the progress bar as a distinct component within the livestreaming interface. The progress bar is positioned at the bottom of the screen, separate from the main video content area. This segmentation allows the progress bar to be integrated without significantly complicating the overall interface design, as it occupies a dedicated space and does not interfere with the main livestream content.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS12568252B2Display method and apparatus for event livestreaming, device and storage medium
Publication Date: 2026.03.03 TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO LTD
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AI summary

A display method includes: displaying a livestreaming image of an event live stream in a livestreaming interface, the event live stream being a stream of an event in which one or more virtual characters play in a virtual environment; displaying a playback control corresponding to a target segment in the livestreaming interface, the target segment being a historical segment in the event live stream; and displaying, in response to a split screen display operation triggered based on the playback control, the livestreaming image in a first split screen area and displaying a playback image of the target segment in a second split screen area, the first split screen area and the second split screen area being different display areas in the livestreaming interface, and the first split screen area and the second split screen area having no intersection.