Interactive Streaming Application Multi-Perspective Video Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing interactive video broadcasting services face challenges in providing a more interactive, multi-perspective experience by incorporating additional camera devices with enhanced video/audio source selection and control, which is difficult to implement effectively.
Innovation Solution
A computing device executes an interactive streaming application that receives and displays multiple video streams from different camera devices, including a panoramic video capturing device, allowing users to switch between viewing angles and sources, providing a multi-source display and enabling users to control the panoramic video perspective independently.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If additional camera devices are incorporated to provide multi-perspective experience, then viewer engagement and interactivity are improved, but device complexity and control difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The broadcasting device is designed to perform multiple functions: it acts as both a traditional video broadcaster and a panoramic video capturer. The single broadcasting device can switch between capturing standard video through its camera and capturing panoramic video through integrated panoramic cameras, eliminating the need for separate dedicated panoramic camera devices while providing multi-perspective viewing experiences
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines the panoramic video capturing capability directly into the broadcasting device. The broadcasting device integrates both traditional camera functionality and panoramic camera functionality, merging multiple video source capabilities into one unified device that can provide both standard and immersive video streams to viewing devices
2Ease of operation
If multiple video sources are integrated with enhanced selection and control, then interactive experience is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The broadcasting device automatically manages multiple video sources by encoding both standard video and panoramic video streams simultaneously. The device self-regulates the video processing, encoding, and streaming without requiring complex manual configuration or control interfaces for source selection, reducing operational complexity while maintaining multi-source capability
Solution Approach 2:
The broadcasting device pre-encodes multiple video streams (standard video and panoramic video) in advance before transmission. By preparing and encoding all video sources beforehand, the device eliminates the need for real-time source switching or complex runtime selection processes, simplifying control while providing rich multi-perspective content to viewers
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AI summary
A computing device is configured to execute an interactive streaming application, and the interactive streaming application configured to join a live broadcast of an event that is shared by an interactive video broadcasting service executing on a server computer, receive a first video stream having video captured from a camera device configured as a first video source and display the video on a display screen, receive a second video stream having panoramic video captured from a panoramic video capturing device configured as a second video source and display a portion of the panoramic video according to a first viewing angle on the display screen, receive a change to the first viewing angle of the panoramic video, and display another portion of the panoramic video according to a second viewing angle.