Video Item Grabbing System for Social Sharing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users cannot easily extract and share interesting moments or items from videos while maintaining a link to the original video, making it difficult to discover or share relevant content without watching the entire video.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a system where video media items can be tagged with start times and durations, allowing users to 'grab' these items during playback, which can be shared independently with social media, including links back to the original video, and providing additional information and purchase options.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If users share video clips with friends, then friends can see interesting content, but friends have to watch the entire video to find the interesting part
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts interesting items or moments from the video and presents them separately to the user. When a user shares content with a friend, the system extracts the specific interesting item (such as a product, person, or scene) and sends it directly to the friend, who can view it without watching the entire video. This extraction principle directly resolves the contradiction by separating the valuable information from the time-consuming video playback.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the video content into discrete interesting items that can be independently shared. Instead of sharing the entire video as one unit, the system identifies and segments specific moments or objects within the video, allowing friends to receive and view only the relevant segments. This segmentation enables efficient information transfer while minimizing the time friends need to spend consuming content.
2Loss of information
If viewers search for additional information about interesting items, then they can find more details, but the information is not connected to the original video media
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system that connects the interesting item extraction with the original video media. When a viewer encounters an interesting item, the system acts as an intermediary by providing additional information about the item while maintaining a direct link back to the specific moment in the original video. This intermediary mechanism ensures that information reliability is maintained through persistent connection to the source material.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where the system tracks and maintains the relationship between extracted interesting items and their source video locations. When users search for or interact with interesting items, the system provides feedback that includes contextual information from the original video, ensuring that additional information remains connected to and verified by the source material. This feedback loop preserves information reliability.
3Ease of operation
If users want to share interesting moments from video, then they can highlight specific content, but they cannot maintain a link to the original video
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates simplified copies or representations of interesting video moments that can be easily shared. These copies include essential information about the interesting item (such as images, descriptions, or key details) while maintaining embedded links back to the original video. The copying principle enables easy sharing operations while preserving the connection to the source through metadata and reference links that travel with the shared content.
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AI summary
In embodiments of video media item selection, items that have been designated for association with video media are displayed while the video media is also displayed for viewing. An item grab application is implemented to receive a user input as an item selection of an item that is associated with the video media while being displayed for viewing. An item page for the selected item can be displayed, where the item page includes an identifier and image of the selected item, as well as a selectable link to the video media. The item grab application can also post the item selection to a social media site when the user shares the selected item. The item selection is posted without the video media that the selected item is associated with, and the video media is selectable for viewing from the item selection that is posted to the social media site.