Video Competition Platform Synchronization and Voting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current video-based competition platforms lack efficient methods for users to create, present, and vote on synchronized video content across multiple devices, with challenges in synchronizing user-generated video with pre-existing audio tracks and enabling simultaneous playback of multiple video clips for voting.
Innovation Solution
A video-based competition platform that allows users to create and manage video competitions on electronic communication devices, utilizing application service provider platforms for hosting and peer-to-peer communication, enabling synchronized playback of multiple video clips with independent control, and merging audio and video clips into a single asset, with features for voting and leaderboard management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If multiple video clips are played simultaneously for voting, then user engagement and voting efficiency are improved, but device complexity and synchronization requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments video content into multiple independent video clips that can be played simultaneously. Each video clip is treated as a separate entity with its own playback controls, allowing users to vote on multiple videos concurrently without overwhelming the system architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary synchronization mechanism that coordinates playback across multiple video clips. This mediator manages timing, triggers voting events, and ensures that all video clips play in sync without requiring complex direct peer-to-peer synchronization between all video players.
2Manufacturing precision
If video clips are synchronized with pre-existing audio tracks, then audio-video alignment quality is improved, but manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-synchronizing video clips with audio tracks before the competition begins. Timing metadata and synchronization points are established in advance, reducing the need for complex real-time synchronization adjustments during playback.
Solution Approach 2:
Video clips are designed to be self-sufficient with embedded timing information and synchronization markers. Each video clip independently manages its own audio-video alignment using pre-baked synchronization data, reducing the need for external coordination during playback.
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AI summary
A video-based competition platform supports video-based competitions between possibly geographically distributed competitors. The video-based competition platform enables users of electronic communication devices to create, compete, view, and vote in video-based competitions. In at least some embodiments, a video-based competition is presented to a user with two or more video clips played in conjunction. The video clips may be synchronized to a time base and/or common audio clip.