Video Content Component Modification System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional methods for retouching videos, such as correcting typographical errors or adding content, are time-intensive and inconvenient due to the need for manual manipulation of video frames.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented method and system that detects content components in video frames, allows users to modify them based on instructions, and overlays the modified content back into the video, while automatically matching styles and handling temporal changes, preventing interference with other content components.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If manual retouching methods are used to correct typographical errors or add content in videos, then precision of content modification can be achieved, but the time required for retouching increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprecision of content modificationVSAvoidtime required for retouching
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables self-service video retouching by automatically detecting content components (text, strokes, images) in video frames and allowing users to modify them directly through simple instructions. The system handles the complex tasks of frame analysis, content identification, and modification application automatically, making the retouching process as simple as giving instructions rather than manually processing each frame.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the mechanical manual retouching process with an automated computer-based system. Instead of manually analyzing each video frame and making modifications, the system uses image processing and pattern recognition algorithms to automatically detect content components and apply modifications based on user instructions, substituting manual mechanical operations with automated computational processes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Loss of time

If automated content detection is implemented in video frames, then the time required for retouching is reduced, but the complexity of the system increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetime required for retouchingVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the video processing task into distinct components: detecting text content, detecting freeform strokes, detecting images, and applying modifications. By dividing the complex video retouching process into separate detectable elements, the system can handle each type of content with specialized algorithms, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining automation capabilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates a universal video retouching system that can handle multiple types of content (text, strokes, images) and multiple modification operations (correction, addition, beautification) through a single integrated platform. This multi-functional approach consolidates what would otherwise require multiple separate tools into one system, managing complexity through unified architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Ease of operation

If direct modification of video content is allowed, then ease of operation is improved, but the risk of interfering with other content components increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of video retouchingVSAvoidrisk of content interference
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system incorporates feedback mechanisms that monitor the video content during modification operations. When a user instructs modifications to text, strokes, or images, the system continuously checks whether these modifications interfere with other content components in the same or adjacent frames. If interference is detected, the system provides feedback to adjust or prevent the modification, ensuring content integrity while maintaining ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11410701B2Systems and methods for direct video retouching for text, strokes and images
Publication Date: 2022.08.09 FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP
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AI summary

A computer-implemented method performed in connection with a video comprising a plurality of video frames, the computer-implemented method being performed in a computerized system comprising a processing unit and a memory, the computer-implemented method involving: using the processing unit to detect a plurality of content components within at least one of the plurality of video frames; based on a video modification instruction received from a user, modifying at least one of the plurality of the detected content components; storing an information on the modified at least one of the plurality of the detected content components in the memory; using the central processing unit to overlay the modified at least one of the plurality of the detected content components over the video; and causing the video with the overlaid modified content component to be displayed to the user.