Surrogate Metadata Aggregation for Legacy Visual Content
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Solution Overview
Problem
Historic visual content digitized without uniform standards is often lacking native metadata, making it inaccessible and unusable for modern applications, particularly those requiring low-latency protocols like augmented reality, due to processor-intensive search methods and lack of metadata fields.
Innovation Solution
A system generates surrogate metadata by identifying and assembling tags from digitally captured content, embedding it within archived digital content without overwriting existing metadata, allowing for correlation and transition between historic and current environments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If traditional processor-intensive search methods are used to search for historic visual content, then search completeness can be maintained, but processing time and latency increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by generating surrogate metadata from digitally captured content before it is needed for search operations. The system pre-processes the content to extract tags, keywords, and descriptive information, storing this metadata in advance so that when search queries are executed, the system can quickly match queries against the pre-generated surrogate metadata rather than performing intensive analysis on the original content during search operations.
2Ease of operation
If native metadata fields are added to archived digital content, then metadata accessibility is improved, but device complexity and storage requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses an intermediary approach by introducing surrogate metadata as a mediating layer between the archived digital content and the search system. Rather than modifying the original archived content structure or adding native metadata fields to historical files, the system creates separate surrogate metadata records that reference and describe the archived content. This intermediary metadata layer provides searchable access without altering or complicating the original content structure.
3Adaptability or versatility
If historic visual content is digitized without uniform standards, then compatibility with various historic formats is maintained, but metadata generation and searchability are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by transforming the digitization approach from requiring uniform source standards to working with diverse formats. The system changes the parameter of metadata generation from 'native metadata extraction during digitization' to 'surrogate metadata generation from digitally captured content'. This allows the system to accept archived content in various formats without requiring them to have been digitized with uniform metadata standards, as the surrogate metadata is generated independently from the content format.
Data Source
AI summary
Concepts and technologies directed to surrogate metadata aggregation for dynamic content assembly are disclosed. Embodiments can include a system that comprises a processor and a memory that stores computer-executable instructions that configure a processor to perform operations. The operations can include obtaining a first visual content from a digital data store, where the first visual content is configured to digitally represent a first scene. The operations can include performing image recognition on the first visual content so as to identify a second visual content that is digitally configured to represent a second scene. The operations can include determining that native original metadata cannot be obtained for the first visual content, where the native original metadata includes information about the first scene digitally represented by the first visual content. The operation can include generating surrogate metadata for the first visual content based on metadata obtained from the second visual content.