Video Montage Generation with Audio Beat Synchronization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face challenges in efficiently selecting and assembling collections of photos and videos to share on social networking platforms, and providers seek to enhance user engagement by offering new features for video and photo content.

Innovation Solution

The creation of a video montage with an audio track, where short video segments are synchronized with the audio track's features (e.g., beats) to create a shareable content format that enhances user engagement.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If users manually select and assemble video segments for sharing, then content quality can be controlled, but time consumption and operational complexity increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent creation efficiencyVSAvoidtime for selecting and assembling videos
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically selects and assembles video segments based on audio track features without requiring manual user intervention. The processor autonomously performs segmentation, synchronization, and montage creation, allowing the content to serve itself rather than requiring user assembly.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system pre-segments video content into manageable portions and pre-identifies audio features before final assembly. This preliminary processing enables rapid montage creation when needed, as the building blocks are already prepared and organized.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If automated video montage creation is implemented, then content generation speed increases, but complexity of the system increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevideo content generation speedVSAvoidsystem complexity for automated processing
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system divides video content into discrete segments based on temporal boundaries and synchronizes them with audio features. This segmentation approach simplifies the automated processing by breaking down complex video content into manageable, independently processable units that can be easily assembled.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system transforms video content by adjusting temporal parameters (segment duration, synchronization points) based on audio track characteristics. This parameter-based approach allows automated creation without requiring complex structural modifications to the video content itself.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Reliability

If video segments are precisely synchronized with audio beats, then engagement quality improves, but processing precision requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesynchronization accuracyVSAvoidtiming precision for segment alignment
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system replaces manual timing and synchronization operations with automated digital processing. The processor automatically aligns video segments with audio beats using computational methods, achieving high precision without the errors and variability inherent in manual synchronization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system analyzes audio track features (beats, tempo, rhythm) and uses this feedback information to automatically determine optimal video segment boundaries and synchronization points. This closed-loop approach ensures accurate alignment by continuously referencing audio characteristics during the assembly process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20250201277A1Generation of a collection of video clips
Publication Date: 2025.06.19 SNAP INC
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AI summary

A method for generation of a collection of video clips from a plurality of video files includes performing facial recognition on a video file of the plurality of video files to identify a portion of the video file including a face, generating a video clip by trimming the portion of the video file including the face, from the video file, and adding the video clip to the collection of video clips. A video montage may be created by adding a plurality of video clips from the collection of video clips together and adding an audio track to the video montage file.