Tagged Time-Synchronized Text Navigation for Media

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional navigation methods for content items, such as songs, movies, or videos, are inaccurate, time-consuming, and resource-wasteful, requiring users to manually scroll or use seek bars to find specific portions, which is inefficient.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a system that allows users to associate tags with time-synchronized text or audio content, enabling precise navigation through graphical user elements and voice commands, with machine learning models to assist in tagging and correcting user inputs.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If conventional navigation methods (seek bar, fast-forward, rewind) are used, then users can navigate content items, but the navigation is inaccurate and time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenavigation accuracyVSAvoidtime to find desired content

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the content item into multiple sections by inserting tags at specific time points within the content. These tags divide the continuous content into discrete, identifiable segments that users can navigate to directly, replacing the continuous but imprecise seek bar navigation with discrete jump points.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent performs preliminary action by pre-inserting tags into the content item during the content creation or processing phase. These tags are positioned at predetermined time points within the content, allowing users to navigate directly to desired sections without manual searching during playback.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If users manually scroll or use seek bars to find specific portions, then navigation is possible, but it is inefficient and resource-wasteful

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenavigation efficiencyVSAvoidcomputational resources consumed

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by pre-processing the content item to insert tags at relevant time points before user interaction. This eliminates the need for real-time analysis or manual scrolling during playback, improving navigation efficiency and reducing computational resource consumption during the actual usage phase.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Measurement precision

If tags are inserted at every time point in the content, then navigation precision is maximized, but the complexity of the system increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent location precisionVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by inserting tags selectively at specific time points within the content based on local characteristics or relevance, rather than uniformly at every time point. This maintains navigation precision where needed while reducing overall system complexity by limiting the number of tags to only those locations that provide navigational value.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS20250113088A1Method and system for navigating tags on time-synchronized content

Publication Date: 2025.04.03 MUSIXMATCH SPA

AI summary

In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for editing navigation of a content item is disclosed. The method may include presenting, via a user interface at a client computing device, time-synchronized text pertaining to the content item; receiving an input of a tag for the time-synchronized text of the content item; storing the tag associated with the time-synchronized text of the content item; and responsive to receiving a request to play the content item: playing the content item via a media player presented in the user interface, and concurrently presenting the time-synchronized text and the tag as a graphical user element in the user interface.