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Small-screen movie-watching using a viewport

  • US 10,056,114 B2
  • Filed: 03/04/2017
  • Issued: 08/21/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A small-screen media-consumption device comprising:

  • a display;

    a viewport-orientation mechanism;

    one or more computer processors; and

    computer-readable storage media, the computer-readable storage media having instructions thereon that, in response to execution by the one or more computer processors, performs operations comprising;

    determining, based on a screen size of the display and on an intended distance from an intended screen to a viewer of a movie, a fraction of the movie to present through a viewport on the display, the fraction representing a portion of an image size of images of the movie;

    presenting the fraction of the movie through the viewport on the display;

    receiving viewport orientations from the viewport-orientation mechanism, the viewport orientations selecting presentation, through the viewport, of plot elements central to a plot of the movie or an environment of the plot elements; and

    when the selections present the plot elements, continuing the plot of the movie and when the selections present the environment;

    ceasing to continue the plot of the movie;

    orrepeating the plot of the movie until the viewport orientations select presentation of the plot elements, and, on selection of the plot elements, repeating presentation of the plot elements not previously viewed through the viewport.

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