Web Browser Plugin for Selective Content Integration in Video Graphics Systems
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current video production systems lack the ability to easily and quickly select and integrate specific content from web pages into video outputs, as they are limited to direct streaming of raw feeds and require customization for each data source, preventing users from browsing and selecting elements for use in graphic pages or templates.
Innovation Solution
A method using a template-based system that allows users to select and send desired text or graphics from web pages to a graphics system, where the selected content is automatically rendered and mixed with other video sources for immediate display, utilizing a browser plugin to communicate over a network and insert the content into predesigned templates.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If direct streaming of raw web feeds is used, then the system can display web content, but the user cannot select and integrate specific portions or elements from web pages into video outputs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a web browser plugin as an intermediary component between the web content source and the video production system. This plugin enables users to select specific portions or elements from web pages and transmit them to the video mixer, resolving the contradiction by providing a mediating interface that bridges the gap between raw web feeds and selective content integration.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments web page content into selectable elements (text, images, videos) that can be individually chosen and integrated into video outputs. This segmentation allows users to extract specific portions from web pages rather than streaming entire pages, enabling precise control over content selection while maintaining versatility across different web sources.
2Adaptability or versatility
If custom programming is done for each data source, then the system can support specific feeds, but the system complexity increases and cannot freely select data from any web page
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal web browser plugin that can interface with any standard web page across different data sources. This single multi-functional plugin replaces the need for custom programming for each source, enabling the system to freely select content from any web page while reducing overall system complexity through standardization.
3Ease of operation
If web pages are rasterized and displayed verbatim, then the content can be shown on video output, but the user cannot select specific elements or use pre-designed graphic templates
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses pre-designed graphic templates that are prepared in advance with designated placeholders for web content elements. When users select content from web pages, it is automatically inserted into these pre-configured templates, enabling rapid integration into video production without manual layout work, thus increasing productivity while maintaining user control over presentation.
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AI summary
A process and apparatus for incorporating web based selected material in real time into a graphics template in a graphics system to be rendered and mixed with a video signal and broadcast, by first selecting the material as a key value to be paired with a key name where said key name is associated with a key name in a preexisting graphics template prepared to receive key value data associated with the key name, assigning the selected material to the desired key name to create a key pair, retrievably storing the key pair, monitoring the graphics system for a change to at least one key value for a key name in a template to be rendered in the graphics system, retrieving at least one key value in a key pair, inserting the key value in the template corresponding to the key name in the key pair, rendering the template, mixing the template with a video signal, and broadcasting the mixed signal.