System and method for representing long video sequences
Systems and procedures for transforming video into a condensed visual representation. An example procedure may include receiving video comprised of a plurality of frames. For each frame, the example procedure may create a first representation, reduced in one dimension, wherein a visual property of each pixel of the first representation is assigned by aggregating a visual property of the pixels of the frame having the same position in the unreduced dimension. The example procedure may further form a condensed visual representation including the first representations aligned along the reduced dimension according to an order of the frames in the video.
1. A method comprising:
generating for display on a computing device a user interface including a visual representation of:
content comprising a plurality of frames;
a first insertion point in the content determined based on timing information retrieved from an information source;
a second insertion point determined based on a condensed visual representation;
an insertion error identified based on the first insertion point and the second insertion point; and
information about the insertion error.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first insertion point is an actual insertion point, and the second insertion point is an intended insertion point.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the insertion error is determined based on a difference between the first insertion point and the second insertion point.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the information about the insertion error comprises at least one of an insertion time, a frame number, a delay between the first insertion point and the second insertion point, or a preview of the condensed visual representation.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the generating for display on the computing device the user interface including the visual representation includes:
a condensed visual representation and metadata for each frame of the plurality of frames determined by condensing the content.
6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the generating for display on the computing device the user interface including the visual representation includes:
for each frame, a visual property of each of a plurality of pixels in at least one of a horizontal row and a vertical column to form a first representation of each frame,
wherein the first representation of each frame is aligned according to an order of the plurality of frames in the content to determine the condensed visual representation.
7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the visual property of each of the plurality of pixels is based on averaging a color of each of the plurality of pixels.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the generating for display on the computing device the user interface including the visual representation includes:
a record of one or more insertion errors based on identifying the one or more insertion errors occurring during a particular period of time,
wherein the record comprises a graph illustrating the one or more insertion errors during the particular period of time for a selected content provider network.
9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the generating for display on the computing device the user interface including the visual representation includes:
based on the record, an identification of at least one of an inaccuracy at a content provider network, an inaccuracy in a transport path, an inaccuracy in a configuration of one or more devices, or an inaccuracy of a configuration parameter; and
a representation of corrective measures to the one or more insertion errors determined based on at least one of the inaccuracy at the content provider network, the inaccuracy in the transport path, the inaccuracy in the configuration of the one or more devices, or the inaccuracy of the configuration parameter.
10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the generating for display on the computing device the user interface including the visual representation includes:
a representation bar with an identifier indicating the insertion error within the condensed visual representation, wherein the condensed visual representation is scaled to fit in the representation bar.
11. A system comprising:
circuitry configured to:
generate for display on a computing device a user interface including a visual representation of:
content comprising a plurality of frames;
a first insertion point in the content determined based on timing information retrieved from an information source;
a second insertion point determined based on a condensed visual representation;
an insertion error identified based on the first insertion point and the second insertion point; and
information about the insertion error.
12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the first insertion point is an actual insertion point, and the second insertion point is an intended insertion point.
13. The system of claim 11 , wherein the insertion error is determined based on a difference between the first insertion point and the second insertion point.
14. The system of claim 11 , wherein the information about the insertion error comprises at least one of an insertion time, a frame number, a delay between the first insertion point and the second insertion point, or a preview of the condensed visual representation.
15. The system of claim 11 , wherein the visual representation includes:
a condensed visual representation and metadata for each frame of the plurality of frames determined by condensing the content.
16. The system of claim 15 , wherein visual representation includes:
for each frame, a visual property of each of a plurality of pixels in at least one of a horizontal row and a vertical column to form a first representation of each frame,
wherein the first representation of each frame is aligned according to an order of the plurality of frames in the content to determine the condensed visual representation.
17. The system of claim 16 , wherein the visual property of each of the plurality of pixels is based on averaging a color of each of the plurality of pixels.
18. The system of claim 11 , wherein the visual representation includes:
a record of one or more insertion errors based on identifying the one or more insertion errors occurring during a particular period of time,
wherein the record comprises a graph illustrating the one or more insertion errors during the particular period of time for a selected content provider network.
19. The system of claim 18 , wherein the visual representation includes:
based on the record, an identification of at least one of an inaccuracy at a content provider network, an inaccuracy in a transport path, an inaccuracy in a configuration of one or more devices, or an inaccuracy of a configuration parameter; and
a representation of corrective measures to the one or more insertion errors determined based on at least one of the inaccuracy at the content provider network, the inaccuracy in the transport path, the inaccuracy in the configuration of the one or more devices, or the inaccuracy of the configuration parameter.
20. The system of claim 11 , wherein the visual representation includes:
a representation bar with an identifier indicating the insertion error within the condensed visual representation, wherein the condensed visual representation is scaled to fit in the representation bar.