Blending Standard and Immersive Video Views
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current technologies have not effectively combined standard video content with immersive video content, limiting the ability to enhance audience experience by providing a seamless and diversified viewing experience.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for blending standard video content with immersive video content, allowing access to both views, synchronizing and aligning them temporally and spatially, and distributing the blended content through various platforms, including remote processing and client-side rendering, enabling audience interaction for selecting immersive views.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If standard video content is used, then ease of operation and compatibility are maintained, but audience immersion and engagement are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The video content is segmented into standard video portions and immersive video portions, allowing the system to process and deliver different types of content separately. This enables the integration of immersive experiences while maintaining compatibility with standard video playback systems.
Solution Approach 2:
A server acts as an intermediary between the content source and the client device. The server receives client requests for immersive video, retrieves both standard and immersive video content, blends them together, and delivers the combined output to the client. This intermediary handles the complexity of coordination, leaving client devices with simpler processing requirements.
2Reliability
If immersive video content is integrated, then audience immersion and engagement are enhanced, but processing complexity and coordination requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The server performs preliminary actions by retrieving and blending standard and immersive video content before delivery to the client. By preparing the blended video in advance on the server side, the system ensures proper synchronization and reduces the processing burden on client devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The server serves as an intermediary that manages the complex coordination between standard and immersive video streams. It handles the blending process, ensuring temporal and spatial synchronization, and delivers the synchronized content to clients, thereby maintaining reliability while centralizing the complexity management.
3Power
If video blending is performed on the server side, then processing capability is sufficient, but network bandwidth requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system allows clients to request immersive video portions selectively based on their specific needs and preferences. Instead of transmitting all immersive video content, only the requested portions are retrieved and blended on the server, reducing unnecessary data transmission while maintaining adequate processing capability.
Data Source
AI summary
Standard video (and audio) data are combined or blended with immersive video (and audio) data. The data may be collected together, and the standard video views may be a default or reflect a primary view or scene for certain content. The immersive video views may be adjacent or around the primary view, and are available for viewing based upon audience input. The data are blended temporally and spatially to synchronize and align them for virtually seamless transition between the standard video view and the immersive video views. Blending may be performed before distribution, after distribution, or some combination of these.