Video Display Mode Switching for Seamless Content Transition

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face inefficiencies in searching and switching between videos on video playback platforms, leading to increased time and energy expenditure, and a poor user experience due to the need for manual searching and switching between related content.

Innovation Solution

A video display method that automatically switches to related videos by detecting changes in video display mode from a first mode to a second mode, allowing seamless transitions and reducing the need for manual searching, using a video display apparatus with modules for displaying initial and target videos in different modes, and a computer-readable medium for executing this method.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If users manually search for related videos on current platforms or switch to other platforms, then they can find related video content, but the time and energy expenditure increases and user experience deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevideo content availabilityVSAvoidvideo searching time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-establishes association relationships between videos (such as parent-child video associations) in advance. When a user watches a video, the system has already prepared related video information, enabling immediate switching without manual searching. This preliminary preparation of video association data resolves the contradiction by making related content readily available while eliminating the time-consuming search process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If users manually search and switch between videos, then they can find related content, but the interaction process becomes lengthy and complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevideo content availabilityVSAvoidvideo switching operation
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically performs video switching based on detected display mode changes. When the user interface switches from portrait to landscape mode, the system autonomously identifies and transitions to associated videos without requiring manual search or selection operations. This automation resolves the contradiction by maintaining content availability while dramatically simplifying user interaction to a single mode-switching action.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Productivity

If the system automatically switches to related videos upon display mode change, then video searching efficiency improves, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevideo switching efficiencyVSAvoidvideo display system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The video display apparatus integrates multiple functions into a unified system: it monitors display mode changes, manages video association relationships, and automatically switches content based on mode transitions. By combining these functions into a single multi-functional apparatus, the system achieves high video switching efficiency without proportionally increasing overall device complexity, as the same hardware components serve multiple purposes.

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

Data Source

PatentUS11875029B2Video display method and apparatus, computer-readable medium, and electronic device
Publication Date: 2024.01.16 TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO LTD
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AI summary

A video display method includes: displaying an initial video on a user interface in a first display mode; and displaying, in response to a video display mode of the user interface being switched from the first display mode to a second display mode, a target video associated with the initial video on the user interface in the second display mode, the first display mode and the second display mode having different video content display directions, and the target video including at least part of video content of the initial video.