Highlight Detection in Video Content via Metadata Indicators
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Solution Overview
Problem
Long-duration video content items, such as sports games, often have periods of low interest for viewers, making it difficult for users to efficiently access highlights, as increasing playback speed may cause missed important events.
Innovation Solution
A method to identify highlights within video content items using indicators such as changes in video or audio content, and user interaction, determining the start and end times of these highlights, and providing visual or message-based indications for easy access.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If playback speed is increased to access highlights faster, then time to locate highlights is reduced, but important events may be missed
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary analysis of the video content to identify highlights and their locations before the user views the content. Metadata containing highlight information is generated in advance, allowing users to directly access highlights without manually scanning through the entire video, thus eliminating the risk of missing events while saving time.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces metadata as an intermediary layer between the video content and the user. This metadata contains pre-processed information about highlight locations, durations, and characteristics, serving as a guide that enables users to efficiently navigate to interesting portions without directly viewing the entire video stream.
2Measurement precision
If the entire video is scanned to identify highlights, then accurate highlight detection is achieved, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The video content is divided into smaller segments or frames that are analyzed individually for highlight indicators. By processing the video in segments rather than as a whole continuous stream, the system can identify highlights more efficiently while maintaining detection accuracy through systematic analysis of each segment.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary processing of video content to extract key features and generate metadata about potential highlights before final playback. This pre-processing stage identifies candidate highlights and their characteristics, allowing the main playback system to quickly retrieve and present confirmed highlights without re-analyzing the entire video.
Data Source
AI summary
A video content item may be identified and a first indicator of a highlight occurring in the video content may also be identified. In response to identifying the first indicator of the highlight occurring in the video content item, a second indicator associated with the highlight may be identified to determine a duration of the highlight that has occurred in the video content item. Furthermore, the video content item and an identification of a location of the highlight in the video content item may be provided based on the determined duration that is associated with the second indicator.