Video Bullet Screen Navigation for Highlight Jumping
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current video viewing experiences are hindered by the inability to quickly jump to a specified time point, with users often missing highlights due to cumbersome methods like watching videos at multiple speeds or repeatedly adjusting the progress bar.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that recognize comment text input by users, generate target bullet screens based on preset formats, and allow users to jump to specific video interfaces when triggering these screens, improving navigation and user experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If users watch videos at multiple speeds to find interesting content, then the video playback speed increases, but users easily miss highlights
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary analysis of video content to identify highlight segments and key moments before playback. Timestamps and keyframe information are pre-extracted and stored, allowing users to quickly jump to important sections without watching entire videos at high speed, thus maintaining both fast playback and accurate highlight detection.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary system consisting of bullet screens, progress bar markers, and keyframe thumbnails that mediate between the user and the video content. These intermediaries provide visual cues about important moments without requiring users to actually watch the video at high speed, solving the contradiction between fast playback and highlight detection.
2Ease of operation
If users drag the video progress bar multiple times to skip uninterested content, then the user can locate target content, but the operation becomes cumbersome and viewing experience deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides self-service by automatically generating and displaying an enhanced progress bar with keyframe thumbnails and timestamp markers. This progress bar automatically identifies and marks important moments in the video, allowing users to directly click on interesting sections without manually dragging back and forth. The system serves itself by providing the navigation structure that users need, eliminating cumbersome operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary organization of video content by extracting keyframes, identifying important moments, and pre-positioning navigation markers on the progress bar. This preliminary action creates a structured overview that guides users directly to target content, eliminating the need for repeated dragging operations and simplifying the user interaction process.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the video interface includes detailed comment information and navigation options, then user interaction capability improves, but the interface becomes cluttered and affects video viewing
Solution Approach 1:
The interface is segmented into distinct functional zones: the main video playback area, a separate progress bar with keyframe markers, and overlayable bullet screens that appear only when triggered. This segmentation allows detailed interaction elements to be distributed across different spatial and temporal dimensions, providing rich user interaction capability while preserving the video display area. Elements appear only when needed rather than occupying space continuously.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent moves navigation and interaction elements from the two-dimensional video plane to additional dimensions. The progress bar with keyframe markers extends the interface vertically below the video, while bullet screens use temporal dimension (appearing only at specific moments) and spatial overlay (semi-transparent layers). This dimensional expansion provides comprehensive interaction capability without cluttering the primary video viewing area.
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AI summary
The present invention discloses techniques of displaying a video. The disclosed techniques comprises receiving comment text information from a user, the comment text information is associated with the video; determining that the comment text information corresponds to a predetermined type of bullet screen based on parsing the comment text information; displaying a target bullet screen being generated based on the comment text information; displaying at least one interface element each of which is selectable and corresponds to an operation associated with the target bullet screen in response to detecting a selection of the target bullet screen on a first interface for playback of the video; and controlling the video to jump to a target interface for playback of the video in response to detecting a selection of one of the at least one interface element.