Streaming Media Processing for Event Coverage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for covering events like sporting events require significant resources and infrastructure, including multiple cameras and satellite terminals, which can lead to incomplete or inferior coverage due to logistical challenges and limited vantage points.
Innovation Solution
A system that enables the delivery of streaming media from mobile phones equipped with cameras, allowing spectators to contribute video streams from various vantage points, which are then selected and integrated into the main broadcast by a media production facility using wireless communications and media distribution servers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple cameras and satellite broadcast terminals are deployed to ensure comprehensive event coverage, then the quality and completeness of broadcast coverage is improved, but the device complexity and infrastructure requirements increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses mobile phones as portable copies of broadcast cameras. Spectators capture event footage using their personal smartphones, which are distributed throughout the venue, effectively replicating the coverage capability of expensive professional cameras without requiring the broadcast organization to deploy extensive camera infrastructure.
Solution Approach 2:
Spectators perform the broadcasting function themselves using their own mobile phones. The system leverages the existing cameras and connectivity infrastructure that spectators already possess, eliminating the need for the broadcast organization to provide dedicated broadcasting equipment to each viewing location.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple cameras are positioned at various locations to provide simultaneous coverage, then the versatility of viewing angles is improved, but the loss of time in setting up and coordinating multiple camera systems increases
Solution Approach 1:
Spectators have mobile phones with cameras and connectivity capabilities already in hand before the event begins. The infrastructure is pre-configured in the venue, so when spectators wish to broadcast, they can immediately begin capturing footage without requiring on-site setup or coordination of camera systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The system allows dynamic repositioning of camera perspectives as spectators move freely throughout the venue. Unlike fixed camera positions, mobile phone cameras can be repositioned by spectators in real-time to capture unexpected moments or change viewing angles without technical coordination delays.
3Power
If a satellite broadcast terminal is used to relay video from cameras to the media production facility, then the transmission capability is improved, but the use of energy and communication resources increases
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of using a centralized satellite terminal to relay video from multiple fixed cameras, the system distributes the transmission function to numerous mobile phones. Each phone independently transmits its captured footage wirelessly, leveraging the existing wireless communication infrastructure already present in the venue rather than requiring dedicated high-power satellite relay equipment.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems, processes and computer-readable media that incorporate the subject disclosure may include, for example, the establishment of wireless communications with a wireless communications device positioned for monitoring an event. A media stream including event media is received from the wireless communications device. The event media is generated by the wireless communications device obtained from the observation position. The media stream is forwarded to a media production processor. Upon selection, the media production processor uses the media stream to prepare media program coverage of the event. Other embodiments are disclosed.