Consumption and capture of media content sensed from remote perspectives

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9002339-B2
Application number	US-201213586718-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 15, 2012
Priority date	Aug 15, 2012
Publication date	Apr 7, 2015
Grant date	Apr 7, 2015

Abstract

Embodiments of apparatus, packages, computer-implemented methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media (transitory and non-transitory) are described herein for enabling a first mobile device to control a second mobile device, to enable media content sensed from a perspective of the second mobile device to be consumed using the first mobile device or captured by the second mobile device under control of the first mobile device. In various embodiments, control may include provision of one or more commands to the second mobile device using at least a persistent communication link between the first and second mobile devices. In various embodiments, control may further include receipt of at least a view of media content currently sensed by the second mobile device using a stateless communication protocol. In various embodiments, the first mobile device may control more than one remote mobile devices.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. At least one non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, in response to execution by a first mobile device, cause the first mobile device to:
receive a control input; and
in response to receipt of the control input, control a second mobile device to enable media content sensed from a perspective of the second mobile device to be consumed using the first mobile device or captured by the second mobile device under control of the first mobile device, wherein control includes:
provision of one or more commands to the second mobile device using at least a persistent communication link between the first and second mobile devices,
receipt, at a first resolution, of a first view of media content currently sensed by the second mobile device using a stateless communication protocol layer in as protocol stack of the first mobile device, wherein the stateless communication protocol layer is disposed above an internet protocol layer and a network layer in the protocol stack, and
receipt, at a second resolution higher than the first resolution, of a second view of the media content using a connection-oriented communication protocol layer in the protocol stack of the first mobile device, wherein the connection-oriented communication protocol layer is disposed above the internet protocol layer and the network layer in the protocol stack, and wherein the connection-oriented communication protocol layer is different from the stateless communication protocol layer.

2. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein provision of one or more commands includes provision of a command to the second mobile device, using the persistent communication link, to activate an image capture device of the second mobile device.

3. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 2 , wherein provision of one or more commands further includes provision of a command to the second mobile device, using the persistent communication link, to activate a flash associated with the image capture device, or to cause the image capture device to record a still image or one or more video frames.

4. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein provision of one or more commands includes provision of a command to the second mobile device, using the persistent communication link, to stream the first view of media content currently sensed by the second mobile device to the first mobile device using a stateless communication protocol layer in a protocol stack of the second mobile device.

5. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 4 , wherein the streamed first view of media content is encoded, and wherein the instructions, in response to execution of the instructions by the first mobile device, further cause the first mobile device to invoke a decoder of the first mobile device to decode the streamed first view of media content.

6. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 4 , wherein the first view of media content is streamed from the second mobile device using a real time streaming protocol (“RTSP”) over the stateless communication protocol layer in the protocol stack of the second mobile device, and wherein provision of one or more commands to the second mobile device further includes provision of one or more of a start, a stop, or a pause command to the second mobile device, using the RTSP, to respectively, start, stop or pause streaming by the second mobile device.

7. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 4 , wherein provision of one or more commands further includes provision of a command to the second mobile device, using the persistent communication link, to initiate recordation of media content sensed by the second mobile device, or provision of a command to the second mobile device, using the persistent communication link, to terminate recordation of media content sensed by the second mobile device.

8. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7 , wherein the streamed first view of the media content has a resolution that is lower than a recordation resolution employed by the second mobile device to record the media content.

9. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7 , wherein provision of one or more commands further includes provision of a command to the second mobile device, using the persistent communication link, to provide the second view of the media content to the first mobile device using a connection-oriented communication protocol layer of a protocol stack of the second mobile device, the second view of the media content comprises recorded media content, and receipt further comprises receipt of the recorded media content using the connection-oriented communication protocol layer of the protocol stack of the first mobile device.

10. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the instructions, in response to execution by the first mobile device, cause the first mobile device to transmit or receive one or more multicast communications to discover the second mobile device.

11. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the instructions, in response to execution by the first mobile device, further cause the first mobile device to:
receive a second control input; and
in response to receipt of the second control input, control a third mobile device to enable media content sensed from a perspective of the third mobile device to be consumed using the first mobile device or captured by the third mobile device under control of the first mobile device, wherein control of the third mobile device includes provision of one or more commands to the third mobile device using at least a persistent communication link between the first and third mobile devices, and receipt of at least a view of media content currently sensed by the third mobile device using the stateless communication protocol layer.

12. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the instructions, in response to execution by the first mobile device, further cause the first mobile device to automatically select, for consumption, the media content sensed from the perspective of the second mobile device, the media content sensed from the perspective of the third mobile device, or both.

13. At least one non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, in response to execution of the instructions by a first mobile device, cause the first mobile device to be controlled by a second mobile device to enable media content sensed from a perspective of the first mobile device to be consumed using the second mobile device or captured by the first mobile device under control of the second mobile device, wherein to be controlled includes:
receipt of one or more commands from the second mobile device using at least a persistent communication link between the first and second mobile devices,
provision, at a first resolution, of a first view of media content currently sensed by the first mobile device using a stateless communication protocol layer in a protocol stack of the first mobile device, wherein the stateless communication protocol layer is disposed above an internet protocol layer and a network layer in the protocol stack, and
provision, at a second resolution higher than the first resolution, of a second view of the media content using a connection-oriented communication protocol layer in the protocol stack of the first mobile device, wherein the connection-oriented communication

Assignees

• Gong Michelle X
• Sun Wei
• Anderson Kenneth T
• Haussecker Horst W
• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Gong Michelle X
• Sun Wei
• Anderson Kenneth T
• Haussecker Horst W

Classifications

• H04N23/90

  Arrangement of cameras or camera modules, e.g. multiple cameras in TV studios or sports stadiums · CPC title

• H04N23/631

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

• H04N23/661 Primary

  Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet · CPC title

• H04N7/18 Primary

  Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast · CPC title

• H04N5/247

  Electricity · mapped topic