Interactive Video Playback Environment Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Video playback devices often limit user exploration of environments due to predetermined pace in extra content, failing to cater to individual viewer interests, which reduces the value and appeal of video media products.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a system and method for interactive environments in video playback devices that allow users to explore settings through user input, utilizing a processor to interpret program sequences and display images and transition sequences stored in memory, enabling panoramic views and customizable navigation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If extra content is presented at a predetermined pace to appeal to the largest audience, then broader audience appeal is achieved, but individual viewer interests are not catered to
Solution Approach 1:
The system transitions from static, linear extra content delivery to dynamic, user-controlled exploration. Users can actively navigate environments, adjust exploration pace, and select areas of interest, making the content delivery adaptive to individual preferences while maintaining manageable complexity through pre-rendered environments and structured navigation options.
2Ease of operation
If linear extra content covers material at a predetermined pace, then production efficiency is maintained, but user exploration freedom is limited
Solution Approach 1:
Environments are pre-rendered and prepared in advance with multiple viewing angles and detailed elements, allowing users to explore freely without real-time rendering requirements. This preliminary preparation maintains production efficiency while enabling significant user exploration freedom during the interactive experience.
3Loss of information
If detailed exploration of environments is provided, then user satisfaction is enhanced, but content delivery time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system allows users to dynamically control their exploration pace and depth. Users can spend as much time as desired examining detailed environmental elements without being constrained by fixed timelines, while the pre-rendered nature of environments ensures that completeness of information is available regardless of exploration duration.
Data Source
AI summary
There is provided a video playback device for providing an interactive environment on a display in response to a user input. The video playback device comprises (1) a memory to store a plurality of images forming a plurality of viewpoints of the interactive environment; a plurality of transition sequences, wherein each of the plurality of transition sequences provides a video transition from one image to another image; and a linking structure linking the plurality of images with the plurality of transition sequences; (2) a processor to determine a direction of movement based on the user input; select a next one of the plurality of transition sequences and a next one of the plurality of images based on the direction of movement and the linking structure; and display the next one of the plurality of transition sequences and the next one of the plurality of images on the display.