Head-Worn Live Streaming UI With Selectable Field-of-View Regions

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current livestreaming technologies using head-wearable devices lack tools for hosting livestreams and require burdensome initiation processes, limiting user interaction and confidence.

Innovation Solution

An augmented-reality/mixed-reality headset with integrated cameras, displays, and programs that facilitate live streaming by capturing and presenting image data, including live streaming UI elements, and enabling audience interaction and preview features, such as teleprompter tools and moderation tools, to enhance user experience.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If head-wearable devices are used for livestreaming, then user mobility and immersion are improved, but the ease of operation deteriorates due to lack of hosting tools and burdensome initiation processes

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of livestream initiationVSAvoidcomplexity of livestreaming tools

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-configures livestreaming parameters, UI layouts, and broadcasting workflows before the user initiates a stream. The head-wearable device includes pre-loaded imaging devices, pre-configured streaming parameters, and pre-designed UI elements that automatically assemble when a user selects to broadcast, eliminating the need for complex manual configuration during initiation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary processing system that bridges the head-wearable device and the broadcasting infrastructure. This intermediary handles the complex tasks of coordinate transformation, image processing, and protocol conversion, allowing the head-wearable device to focus on capture while the intermediary manages the complexity of livestreaming integration.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If head-wearable devices capture full field of view, then coverage is improved, but the ease of operation deteriorates due to difficulty in managing and selecting content for broadcast

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of content selectionVSAvoidfield of view coverage

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSArea of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the full field of view into multiple manageable portions or zones. The imaging device captures the complete field of view, but the system then divides this into selectable regions or focuses on specific areas of interest, allowing users to easily select and broadcast particular portions without being overwhelmed by the entire wide-angle view.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system captures more than what is immediately needed (excessive action) by recording the full field of view, but then selectively transmits or displays only the necessary portions (partial action). This allows comprehensive coverage while simplifying the user's task of selecting what to broadcast by presenting pre-processed portions or highlighted regions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple imaging devices are integrated, then adaptability is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveversatility of imaging devicesVSAvoidcomplexity of device integration

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The head-wearable device is designed with a universal imaging system that can accommodate multiple imaging devices (cameras, sensors, microphones) with different functions and characteristics. These devices are integrated through a common processing framework that handles various input types uniformly, allowing the system to adapt to different capture needs without requiring separate specialized processing paths for each device type.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent merges multiple imaging devices into a unified processing pipeline. Different cameras and sensors are combined and coordinated through a central processing unit that synchronizes their operation, transforms their outputs to a common coordinate system, and integrates their data streams. This consolidation reduces the complexity of managing multiple devices by presenting them as a coordinated single system.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS20260052293A1Systems and methods for performing live streams via a portion of the field of view of an imaging device coupled to a head-wearable device

Publication Date: 2026.02.19 META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES LLC

AI summary

Systems and method for live streaming are disclosed. An example method includes capturing, image data including a field of view of the imaging device. The method includes presenting, a live streaming user interface (UI) including the image data and one or more live streaming UI elements. The method further includes, in response to an input selecting a live streaming UI element configured to initiate a broadcast, identifying a plurality of potential regions of interest within the field of view of the imaging device and responsive to a user input selecting a region of interest of the plurality of potential region of interest, providing broadcasted image data including the region of interest within the field of view of the image data. The method further includes replacing the image data included in the live streaming UI with the broadcasted image data, and presenting an audience interaction UI element within the live-stream UI.