Time-tagged Metainformation Synchronization for Multimedia Playback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems fail to effectively display content-related metainformation in synchronization with the content, making it difficult for users to experience time-tagged metadata alongside multimedia content.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that synchronizes the display of metainformation with multimedia content, allowing users to view tags in correspondence with the playback time of video or audio, differentiating tags by source and time of input, and enabling separate storage and retrieval of content and metainformation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If metainformation is stored separately from content, then data organization flexibility is improved, but data retrieval complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a timestamp as an intermediary element that connects metainformation with content. The timestamp serves as a common reference point that allows separate storage of content and metainformation while enabling synchronized retrieval through time-based correlation, thus resolving the contradiction between organizational flexibility and retrieval complexity.
2Loss of information
If multiple users' tags are displayed simultaneously, then information completeness is improved, but display complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the display of multiple users' tags by organizing them according to timestamps. Each user's tags are displayed in chronological order with clear temporal markers, dividing the complex information into manageable time-based segments that are easier to process and display simultaneously without overwhelming the interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds the time dimension as a new organizational axis for displaying tags. Instead of displaying all tags in a single flat list or by user alone, tags are arranged in a time-based sequence that allows multiple users' contributions to be displayed simultaneously with clear temporal context, reducing display complexity while maintaining information completeness.
3Ease of operation
If tags are displayed in real-time synchronization with content playback, then user interaction quality is improved, but system processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-processing and timestamping metainformation during content upload or initial playback, rather than processing it in real-time during each playback session. Tags are associated with specific timestamps in advance, allowing the system to simply retrieve and display pre-synchronized tags during playback without heavy real-time processing demands, thus maintaining high user interaction quality while reducing system power requirements.
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AI summary
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for displaying content-related metainformation, and display of content-related tag metainformation in correspondence, and synchronized, e.g., time-based, with the content, so as to display content together with related time-tag information.