Supplemental Content for Complex Media Segments
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users often struggle to understand complex media segments during trick play features like rewind, pause, and fast-forward, leading to frustration and potential abandonment of complex media content.
Innovation Solution
A system that identifies complex media segments using various complexity factors such as viewing habits, reviews, and metadata, and provides supplemental content tailored to the user's preferences and understanding needs during trick play.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If trick play features (rewind, pause, fast-forward) are used to help users understand complex media segments, then user control and comprehension opportunity are improved, but user frustration increases and understanding does not guarantee improvement
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces supplemental content as an intermediary element between the user and the complex media segment. When a user activates trick play on a complex segment, the system automatically provides supplemental content (explanations, reviews, contextual information) that mediates the understanding process, eliminating the need for users to manually search for explanations while ensuring they receive accurate, relevant information to comprehend the complex segment.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by monitoring user trick play actions and automatically responding with supplemental content. When the system detects that a user is rewinding, pausing, or fast-forwarding through a complex segment, it provides feedback in the form of contextual information or explanations that address the user's comprehension needs, creating a closed-loop system that adapts to user understanding requirements.
2Loss of information
If users manually search for explanations during trick play, then understanding opportunity is improved, but time consumption and user effort increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-processing and organizing supplemental content related to media segments before users need it. The system analyzes media content, identifies complex segments, and prepares relevant explanations, reviews, and contextual information in advance. When users activate trick play, this pre-prepared supplemental content is immediately delivered, eliminating the need for users to manually search during the trick play moment.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements self-service by automatically detecting when a user is viewing a complex segment through trick play actions and autonomously providing the appropriate supplemental content. The system monitors user behavior, identifies comprehension needs, and delivers explanations without requiring users to initiate separate search actions, making the information provision process automatic and seamless.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods are provided herein for including supplemental content with segments based on the complexity of the segment. This may be accomplished by a system receiving complexity information related to a media asset and user information related to a viewer to determine if one or more segments of the media asset is complex for the user. If the system receives a trick play command, from the user, during a segment categorized as complex, the system can use the complexity information and user information to generate supplemental content, facilitating better user understanding of the complex segment.