Panoramic Video Sensory Cueing for Future Event Awareness
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Solution Overview
Problem
Panoramic video viewers often miss important events occurring outside their current field of view, as they are not adequately notified of upcoming events in immersive video environments, leading to a lack of awareness and engagement with the full panoramic content.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and method that utilize current-field-of-view indication data combined with future-event-direction data to provide sensory cues, such as audio, visual, or haptic cues, to notify viewers of events happening outside their current field of view, allowing them to adjust their view in time to witness these events.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If panoramic video content is displayed to extend outside the viewer's current field of view, then the immersive experience and coverage of video content are improved, but the viewer's awareness and ability to detect future events outside their current field of view deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by providing sensory cues about future events before they actually occur in the panoramic video. The processor identifies upcoming events outside the current field of view and generates advance notifications (audio, visual, or haptic cues) to alert the viewer, enabling them to proactively adjust their viewing direction to witness the events.
2Loss of information
If sensory cues are provided to notify viewers of future events outside their field of view, then viewer awareness and engagement are improved, but the device complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies segmentation by offering multiple independent sensory cue types (audio cues, visual cues, haptic cues) that can be selected or combined based on the situation. The processor can divide the notification function into separate sensory modalities, allowing flexible deployment depending on the device capabilities and user preferences, thereby managing complexity through modular sensory output options.
3Reliability
If multiple sensory cue types (audio, visual, haptic) are provided, then the effectiveness of event notification is improved, but the energy consumption and device resource usage increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements dynamics by adaptively selecting and adjusting the type, intensity, and combination of sensory cues based on real-time conditions. The processor can dynamically determine which sensory modalities to activate (audio, visual, haptic) and adjust their parameters according to the urgency of the event, the viewer's current state, and available device resources, thereby optimizing energy consumption while maintaining notification effectiveness.
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AI summary
An apparatus comprising a processor and memory including computer program code, the memory and computer program code configured to, with the processor, enable the apparatus at least to:use received current-field-of-view indication data together with future-event-direction data, in respect of recorded panoramic video output provided by panoramic video content data, to provide a sensory cue for a viewer of the recorded panoramic video output to indicate the direction of a future event in the recorded panoramic video output which is outside a current field of view,wherein the recorded panoramic video output is configured to provide video content to the viewer which extends outside the field of view of the viewer in at least in one direction, and the future-event-direction data is supplemental to the panoramic video content data which provides the video content itself.