Video Map for Item Information Notification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current optical disc playing devices and video sources do not provide efficient access to information about purchasable items depicted in videos, limiting the user's ability to identify and obtain details about products shown during playback.
Innovation Solution
The integration of autoactive systems and methodologies that analyze video content to define segments featuring significant items, providing real-time item information through processing and control software, allowing users to access purchase information and additional details via a remote control device, with indications displayed during video playback.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional optical disc playing devices are used, then basic video playback is provided, but efficient access to item information is not available
Solution Approach 1:
A video map is introduced as an intermediary data structure that links video segments to item information. The video map contains references to items depicted in video segments and connects to external item information sources, enabling efficient access to item details without requiring complex integration between video playback and product databases.
Solution Approach 2:
The video map is pre-generated and prepared before video playback occurs. Item information is pre-organized and indexed in the video map structure, allowing the system to quickly retrieve and display relevant item information when users request it during playback, without requiring real-time analysis or complex on-demand data gathering.
2Adaptability or versatility
If item information is provided during video playback, then user engagement is enhanced, but video playback continuity is interrupted
Solution Approach 1:
The video playback experience is segmented into independent units where item information can be accessed without interrupting the overall playback flow. The video map allows the system to identify and provide item information for specific segments without requiring the user to stop watching the entire video, maintaining playback continuity while enabling interactive information access.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides item information on-demand only when users actively request it, rather than continuously displaying all item information throughout the video. This partial action approach ensures that video playback remains the primary activity while item information is available as needed, preventing unnecessary interruptions to the viewing experience.
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus capable of, and a method comprising, the steps of monitoring a play location within a video; searching a plurality of segment definitions to identify a segment definition that is responsive to the play location, a segment definition defines, responsive to a depiction of a purchasable item, a beginning and an ending of a video segment within the video; displaying, responsive to an identified segment definition, an indication that item purchase information is available for an item being depicted; receiving, from a user, a request for item purchase information in response to the display of an indication that item information is available; identifying a request location that is responsive to the request for item purchase information; and displaying item purchase information associated with a segment definition that is responsive to the request location.