Wireless Connectivity Loss for Video Capture Location
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Solution Overview
Problem
In news production and other contexts, accurately recording the capture location of video footage is challenging due to the fast-paced nature of operations, making it difficult to reliably log location information for later searching and indexing.
Innovation Solution
A computing system detects instances of a videographer and video camera moving away from a motor vehicle by tracking loss of short-range wireless connectivity between paired modules, presenting a list of candidate locations for user selection as capture-location metadata, and recording the selected location for the video.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual location recording is used during video capture, then location information can be recorded, but the fast-paced nature of news production makes it difficult to reliably record location information
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically detecting candidate capture locations and presenting them to the user before final video processing. This eliminates the need for manual location recording during fast-paced news production, as the locations are pre-identified based on wireless connectivity loss patterns.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses the videographer's own wireless communication device and the vehicle's wireless system to automatically detect capture locations. The videographer simply needs to select from pre-presentsed candidate locations, rather than manually recording locations, making the system self-sufficient for location tracking.
2Reliability
If automated location detection methods are implemented, then location recording becomes more reliable, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses wireless connectivity loss as an intermediary indicator to detect capture locations. Instead of directly tracking videographer position, the system monitors the loss of wireless connection between the videographer's device and the vehicle's wireless system, which indirectly but reliably indicates when the videographer has exited the vehicle at a capture location.
3Extent of automation
If wireless connectivity tracking is used to identify capture locations, then location identification becomes automated, but additional wireless communication infrastructure is required
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses the videographer's existing wireless communication device (such as a smartphone) and the vehicle's wireless system for multiple purposes: both for standard communication functions and for detecting capture locations through connectivity loss. This multi-functionality reduces the need for dedicated specialized equipment.
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AI summary
A method and system to facilitate identifying and recording capture location of recorded video. A computing system determines multiple locations where a first wireless communication module and second wireless communication module have lost wireless connectivity with each other, as possible locations where a video camera may be used to capture video. The computing system then outputs, for presentation to the videographer or another user, a location-selection prompt that specifies the multiple determined locations as candidate capture-locations for a video that was captured by the video camera. Further, the computing system receives, in response to the location-selection prompt, data that represents a user selection of one of the specified locations. The computing system then records the selected location as capture-location metadata for the video, such as capture-location data integrated with the video or in a database relationship with the video.