Video Service Object Overlays for Voice Assistant Interaction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing voice AI assistant services lack an effective mechanism for utilizing their capabilities to provide information about people or products appearing in a video during video reproduction, leading to inefficiencies in user interaction.

Innovation Solution

An information processing apparatus and method that integrates POI metadata with video data to generate additional images for service objects, allowing users to interact with a voice AI assistant service by recognizing and requesting information about specific objects in the video through voice.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a plurality of applications are operated in an environment where resources are shared among the applications, then resource utilization is improved, but the risk of virus infection spreading between applications increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveresource utilizationVSAvoidvirus infection risk

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system divides the shared environment into isolated containers (virtual machines or containers) where each application runs in its own secure space. This segmentation allows resource sharing at the host level while preventing virus propagation between applications through the isolation boundaries.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

A virtualization layer acts as an intermediary between applications and physical resources. This intermediary provides controlled access and isolation, enabling resource sharing while blocking direct communication paths that viruses could exploit to spread between applications.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If virtual machine migration is performed frequently to balance workload, then resource allocation efficiency is improved, but migration time and energy consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveresource allocation efficiencyVSAvoidmigration time

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-warming target hosts and pre-allocating resources before migration is needed. This preparation reduces the actual migration time when workload balancing requires VM movement, as the infrastructure is already ready to receive migrating virtual machines.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements periodic monitoring and scheduled migration operations instead of continuous or on-demand migration. This periodic approach allows the system to migrate VMs at optimal intervals when impact is minimized, balancing resource allocation efficiency with reduced migration overhead.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #19Periodic action

Data Source

PatentEP3780638B1Information processing device, information processing device, and program

Publication Date: 2026.05.13 SONY GROUP CORP

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AI summary

This information processing apparatus includes: a media reproduction unit that acquires and reproduces video data including a service object, for which a service that processes a request from a user through voice is available; and a controller that adds an additional image for informing the user about the service object to the reproduced video and saves identification information of the video data and information of a start time and an end time of the additional image, as a bookmark that is optionally selected by the user and is provided to a scene with the additional image.