System and method for presenting and viewing a spherical video segment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10536683-B2
Application number	US-201816185956-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 9, 2018
Priority date	Feb 22, 2016
Publication date	Jan 14, 2020
Grant date	Jan 14, 2020

Abstract

Systems and methods for marking an event of interest within a spherical video segment are provided. The spherical video segment may define visual content viewable from a point of view. User input may designate an event of interest within the visual content. The user input may indicate a moment in time in the spherical video segment and a viewing angle of the event of interest. Tag information associated with the event of interest may be generated. The tag information may identify the moment in time and the viewing angle such that a subsequent presentation of the spherical video segment, proximate to the moment in time, includes an alert notification that the event of interest is outside a display field of view based on the viewing angle being outside the display field of view.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for marking an event of interest within a spherical video segment, the system comprising:
a display configured to present images; and
one or more physical computer processors configured by computer readable instructions to:
obtain the spherical video segment that defines visual content viewable from a point of view;
determine a display field of view from the point of view within the spherical video segment to be presented on the display;
effectuate presentation on the display of the visual content defined by the spherical video segment within the display field of view;
receive user input designating an event of interest within the visual content defined by the spherical video segment, the user input indicating a moment in time in the spherical video segment and a viewing angle of the event of interest from the point of view within the visual content defined by the spherical video segment; and
generate tag information associated with the event of interest, the tag information identifying the moment in time and the viewing angle such that a subsequent presentation of the spherical video segment includes an alert notification, proximate to the moment in time, that the event of interest is outside the display field of view based on the viewing angle being outside the display field of view.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the alert notification includes an audible representation played in a right ear or a left ear of a user based on a direction in which the user should look to view the event of interest.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the audible representation is played in the right ear of the user to indicate that the user should look to the right and is played in the left ear of the user to indicate that the user should look to the left.

4. The system of claim 2 , wherein the audible representation includes an audible direction to orient the display to include the viewing angle within the display field of view.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the alert notification includes an instruction to increase or decrease visible degrees within the display field of view.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the display field of view is automatically altered during the subsequent presentation to include the event of interest.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:
store the tag information associated with the event of interest for the spherical video segment.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:
effectuate transmission of the tag information associated with the event of interest to a client computing platform.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the proximate to the moment in time includes one or more of a predefined time period prior to the moment in time, a predefined time period after the moment in time, and/or the moment in time.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the alert notification includes a graphical representation.

11. A method for marking an event of interest within a spherical video segment, the method comprising:
obtaining the spherical video segment that defines visual content viewable from a point of view;
determining a display field of view from the point of view within the spherical video segment to be presented on a display;
effectuating presentation on the display of the visual content defined by the spherical video segment within the display field of view;
receiving user input designating an event of interest within the visual content defined by the spherical video segment, the user input indicating a moment in time in the spherical video segment and a viewing angle of the event of interest from the point of view within the visual content defined by the spherical video segment; and
generating tag information associated with the event of interest, the tag information identifying the moment in time and the viewing angle such that a subsequent presentation of the spherical video segment includes an alert notification, proximate to the moment in time, that the event of interest is outside the display field of view based on the viewing angle being outside the display field of view.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the alert notification includes an audible representation played in a right ear or a left ear of a user based on a direction in which the user should look to view the event of interest.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the audible representation is played in the right ear of the user to indicate that the user should look to the right and is played in the left ear of the user to indicate that the user should look to the left.

14. The method of claim 12 , wherein the audible representation includes an audible direction to orient the display to include the viewing angle within the display field of view.

15. The method of claim 11 , wherein the alert notification includes an instruction to increase or decrease visible degrees within the display field of view.

16. The method of claim 11 , the display field of view is automatically altered during the subsequent presentation to include the event of interest.

17. The method of claim 11 , further comprising storing the tag information associated with the event of interest for the spherical video segment.

18. The method of claim 17 , further comprising effectuating transmission of the tag information associated with the event of interest to a client computing platform.

19. The method of claim 11 , wherein the proximate to the moment in time includes one or more of a predefined time period prior to the moment in time, a predefined time period after the moment in time, and/or the moment in time.

20. The method of claim 11 , wherein the alert notification includes a graphical representation.

Assignees

• Gopro Inc

Inventors

• Matias Joven
• Newman David
• Phan Ha
• Bucklin Timothy
• Stimm Daryl

Classifications

• G11B27/105 Primary

  of operating discs · CPC title

• H04N9/87 Primary

  Regeneration of colour television signals (H04N9/80 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H04N23/631

  Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters · CPC title

• H04N23/634

  Warning indications · CPC title

• H04N23/698

  for achieving an enlarged field of view, e.g. panoramic image capture · CPC title