Dynamic Trick Play Thumbnails for Content-Filtered Preview
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional trick play experiences in digital media players often expose users to unwanted or targeted content through static thumbnails, hindering a seamless and personalized viewing experience.
Innovation Solution
Systems dynamically modify or generate thumbnails based on user-defined streaming criteria, filtering out or generating thumbnails that exclude objectionable content, ensuring a customized trick play experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If static thumbnails are used in trick play mode, then the system is simple and storage is reduced, but users may encounter unwanted or targeted content
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary filtering of thumbnails before they are displayed to the user. Streaming criteria are applied in advance to identify and remove thumbnails containing targeted content, so that when users navigate through trick play mode, only acceptable thumbnails are shown. This preliminary action prevents exposure to unwanted content without requiring complex real-time analysis during user interaction.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary filtering layer between the thumbnail generation system and the user interface. This intermediary component evaluates thumbnails against streaming criteria and selectively blocks or modifies thumbnails that contain targeted content. This mediator approach resolves the contradiction by adding controlled complexity only where needed to filter content, while maintaining simplicity in the overall system architecture.
2Adaptability or versatility
If thumbnails are dynamically modified or regenerated based on streaming criteria, then user experience is improved, but storage and processing costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of modifying all thumbnails uniformly, the system applies streaming criteria selectively to identify only those thumbnails containing targeted content. Only the specific thumbnails that violate the criteria are filtered or regenerated, while the majority of acceptable thumbnails remain unchanged. This local quality approach provides customization where needed while minimizing storage and processing overhead.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes parameters of existing thumbnails (such as filtering or regenerating specific frames) rather than creating entirely new thumbnail sets. By modifying parameters like content filters or temporal selection criteria, the system achieves adaptability and customization without proportionally increasing storage requirements. The same thumbnail infrastructure is reused with adjusted parameters to meet user preferences.
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AI summary
Disclosed embodiments are directed to systems and methods for enhancing the trick play experience on a digital media player. Systems identify a triggering event to activate a trick play mode, access a set of thumbnails associated with a media file for display during trick play, and retrieve streaming criteria to exclude specific content during streaming. The method dynamically modifies a thumbnail containing targeted content based on the streaming criteria, ensuring the exclusion of the targeted content. Upon user selection to preview content of a media file at a specific temporal location in the media file, the modified thumbnail is displayed, providing a customized trick play experience that optimizes user interaction with the media file.