Interactive Subtitle Widget for Video Playback Visibility Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in adjusting subtitles during video playback, leading to obscured images and language barriers that hinder the viewing experience.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that allows users to adjust subtitle visibility, language, and audio settings through touch operations on a subtitle widget and pop-up window, enabling hiding and resuming subtitle display, and switching between original and translated subtitles.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If subtitles are displayed during video playback, then language comprehension is improved, but image visibility is reduced due to obstruction
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the subtitle display function from the fixed playback interface by introducing a floating subtitle widget that can be independently positioned and hidden. Users can tap the subtitle widget to hide it completely or adjust its position, separating the subtitle information from the video image area to resolve the obstruction problem.
Solution Approach 2:
The subtitle widget is designed with dynamic properties, including the ability to change visibility state (hidden/displayed), adjust position, and respond to user interactions. The widget can transition between different display states based on user commands, allowing flexible adaptation between language comprehension and image visibility needs.
2Device complexity
If subtitle language is fixed, then processing complexity is reduced, but adaptability to different users is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The subtitle widget serves multiple functions: displaying subtitles in the selected language, providing language selection, enabling hiding/toggling, and offering position adjustment. This multi-functional design allows a single component to handle various user needs without increasing overall system complexity, as all functions are integrated into the interactive widget.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the language parameter of subtitles based on user selection through the widget. When users select different languages via the pop-up menu, the subtitle widget updates the language parameter and re-displays subtitles in the selected language, providing adaptability without requiring complex processing for multiple languages simultaneously.
3Ease of operation
If subtitle widget remains visible, then ease of operation is improved, but user experience is worsened when subtitles obstruct important visual content
Solution Approach 1:
The subtitle widget incorporates feedback mechanisms where user interactions (taps, clicks) are detected and respond accordingly. When users tap the widget, it provides immediate feedback by hiding the widget or opening a pop-up menu for language selection. This feedback loop allows users to quickly adjust subtitle visibility based on whether the subtitles are obstructing important visual content.
Solution Approach 2:
The subtitle widget is pre-configured with language selection options and visibility controls before the user needs to adjust them. The pop-up menu with language options is prepared in advance, allowing users to quickly switch languages or hide the widget without navigating through complex menus, thus maintaining ease of operation while preventing visual obstruction.
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AI summary
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for video processing. The method displays a playback interface of a first video displaying subtitle widget used to display a subtitle of the first video; displays, in response to a first touch operation of a user on the subtitle widget during playback of the first video, a setting pop-up window, the setting pop-up window used by a user to set the language of subtitles for the first video and/or to set the subtitle widget to be hiding; processes the first video in response to a second touch operation of the user on the setting pop-up window.