System and method for presenting and viewing a spherical video segment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9973746-B2
Application number	US-201615046344-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 17, 2016
Priority date	Feb 17, 2016
Publication date	May 15, 2018
Grant date	May 15, 2018

Abstract

Systems and methods for presenting and viewing a spherical video segment is provided. The spherical video segment including tag information associated with an event of interest may be obtained. The tag information may identify a point in time and a viewing angle at which the event of interest is viewable in the spherical video segment. An orientation of a two dimensional display may be determined based upon output signals of a sensor. A display field of view within the spherical video segment may be determined and presented on the display based upon the orientation of the display. The display field of view may be captured as a two dimensional video segment. If the viewing angle of the event of interest is outside the display field of view proximate the point in time, a notification may be presented within the display field of view.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for presenting an event of interest within a spherical video segment, the system comprising:
a two dimensional display configured to present two dimensional images;
a sensor configured to generate output signals conveying information related to an orientation of the display;
one or more physical computer processors configured by computer readable instructions to:
obtain the spherical video segment, the spherical video segment including tag information associated with the event of interest in the spherical video segment, the tag information identifying a point in time in the spherical video segment and a viewing angle within the spherical video segment at which the event of interest is viewable in the spherical video segment;
determine the orientation of the display based on the output signals;
determine a display field of view within the spherical video segment to be presented on the display based on the orientation of the display;
effectuate presentation of the display field of view of the spherical video segment on the display;
proximate to the point in time, determine whether the viewing angle is located within the display field of view;
responsive to a determination proximate to the point in time that the viewing angle is outside the display field of view, generate alert information indicating the event of interest for the spherical video segment is located outside the display field of view; and
effectuate presentation of a notification based upon the alert information, wherein the notification includes the alert information and is presented within the display field of view.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein proximate to the point in time at which the event of interest is viewable includes one or more of a predefined time period prior to the point in time at which the event of interest is viewable, a predefined time period after the point in time at which the event of interest is viewable, and/or the point in time at which the event of interest is viewable.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the notification includes a graphical representation of the alert information within the display field of view.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the graphical representation includes a direction to orient the display to include the viewing angle within the display field of view.

5. The system of claim 3 , wherein the graphical representation includes the point in time at which the event of interest is viewable.

Assignees

• Gopro Inc

Inventors

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

Classifications

• H04N13/0497

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N13/0468 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G09G3/20 Primary

  for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix {no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters} · CPC title

• H04N13/398

  Synchronisation thereof; Control thereof · CPC title

• H04N13/366 Primary

  using viewer tracking · CPC title