Multi-Window Video Framing With a Unified Playback Timeline
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Solution Overview
Problem
Videos with wide fields of view make it difficult to see different spatial parts simultaneously.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for presenting multiple views of videos by using a graphical user interface that includes multiple viewing windows with adjustable framing and a single timeline representation, allowing for synchronized playback and independent or dependent positioning of viewing windows.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If a wide field of view video is presented in a single viewing window, then the complete spatial scene is captured, but it becomes difficult to see different spatial parts of the video at the same time
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the wide field of view video into multiple viewing windows (e.g., first viewing window, second viewing window) that display different spatial parts of the same video simultaneously. Each viewing window has its own independent framing that can be adjusted to focus on specific regions of interest, allowing users to compare and analyze different spatial areas without switching between separate video clips.
2Ease of operation
If multiple viewing windows with separate framing are created, then different spatial parts can be viewed simultaneously, but the complexity of managing multiple framing sets increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple framing sets into a unified graphical user interface that manages all viewing windows simultaneously. The system integrates timeline synchronization, coordinated framing adjustments, and unified playback control across all windows, reducing the operational complexity that would otherwise arise from managing separate framing configurations for each viewing window.
Solution Approach 2:
The graphical user interface provides universal controls that manage multiple viewing windows through a single integrated system. Users can adjust framing, control playback, and synchronize timelines across all viewing windows using common interface elements, rather than requiring separate controls for each window, thereby simplifying the overall system complexity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If separate timelines are used for each viewing window, then independent playback control is achieved, but synchronization between windows becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple separate timelines into a single synchronized timeline system that controls all viewing windows simultaneously. This unified timeline ensures that playback, pausing, and other temporal operations are coordinated across all windows, maintaining synchronization while still allowing users to independently adjust the framing and spatial focus of each viewing window through the graphical user interface.
Data Source
AI summary
Multiple sets of framing for a video may define different positioning of multiple viewing windows for a video. The multiple viewing windows may be used to provide different punchouts of the video within a graphical user interface. The graphical user interface may enable creation/change in the sets of framing for the video. The graphical user interface for the punchouts may include a single timeline representation for the video. Framing indicators that represent different sets of framing for the video may be presented along the single timeline representation at different times.