Video Playback Interface for Timestamped Similar-Content Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face challenges in efficiently locating preferred portions of video content, interacting with other viewers, and synchronizing video viewing with comments, leading to inefficiencies and reduced user experience.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that utilize a user terminal to display a playback screen with a graphic object for similar content, based on positive feedback and preference information, and generate chatbot messages or popular comments to enhance user interaction and content navigation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If users manually browse through video content to locate preferred portions, then they can find desired scenes, but excessive time is spent watching undesired portions
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary analysis of video content to generate a table of contents with timestamps and scene descriptions before the user watches. This allows users to jump directly to preferred portions without manually browsing through undesired content, thus resolving the contradiction between location accuracy and time spent.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users read comments associated with specific video portions, then they can engage with content discussions, but they must alternate between watching video and reading comments
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges the video playback interface with the comment display interface by showing comments in a popup window or side panel during video playback. Users can read comments associated with current playback time without leaving the video screen, thus combining multiple functions into one unified interaction flow.
3Adaptability or versatility
If users replay video from specific playback times to watch again, then they can review preferred scenes, but they must manually navigate back to those timestamps
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-generates a table of contents with timestamps and scene descriptions during video playback. When users want to review preferred scenes, they can directly select from the pre-generated table of contents rather than manually navigating back to timestamps, thus simplifying the review process.
4Adaptability or versatility
If video content is displayed without additional interactive elements, then the playback screen remains simple, but user interaction and engagement are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the playback interface into distinct functional areas: main video display area, table of contents area, and comment popup area. Each segment serves a specific function and can be independently controlled, allowing rich interaction capability while maintaining a relatively simple and organized overall interface structure.
Data Source
AI summary
Provided is a method for assisting video content viewing, the method being performed by processing circuitry of a user terminal, and the method including displaying a playback screen of first video content on a display of the user terminal, the first video content being played on the playback screen, generating a graphic object configured to enable playback of similar content associated with a first playback time of the first video content, and displaying the graphic object on the display together with the playback screen of the first video content.