Method and apparatus for an interchangeable wireless media streaming device

• US 10,425,457 B2
• Filed: 06/05/2018
• Issued: 09/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Action Streamer, LLC
• Original Assignee: Action Streamer, LLC
• Inventors: McLennan, Christopher S., Harnish, II, Edward Jay
• Primary Examiner(s): Katsikis, Kostas J
• Application Number:
  US16/000,427
• Publication Number:
  US 20180295169A1
• Time in Patent Office: 476 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/385 Transceivers carried on the body, e.g. in helmets
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2001/3866 carried on the head
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/60 Network streaming of media packets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/61 for supporting one-way streaming services, e.g. Internet radio
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/70 Media network packetisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/762 at the source reformatting of additional data in video distribution servers H04N21/2355
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/51 Housings
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/185 from a mobile camera, e.g. for remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/646 for image enhancement, e.g. vertical detail restoration, cross-colour elimination, contour correction, chrominance trapping filters

Abstract

It is possible to capture video information using one or more body mounted cameras, to transmit that information over a wireless communication channel, and to process that information, such as by using angular momentum information captured by gyroscopes, to obtain an image which is suitable for viewing in real time. This technology can be applied in a variety of contexts, such as sporting events, and can also be applied to information which is captured and stored for later use, either in addition to, or as an alternative to, streaming that information for real time viewing. Such video information can be captured by components fully enclosed within a hat clip enclosure that is mountable on a brim of a hat.

Claims

1. A system for the wireless transmission, reception and processing of video streams, the system comprising:

(a) a plurality of portable video capture and transmission devices, wherein;

(i) at least one of the plurality of portable video capture and transmission devices;

comprises a case which fully encloses video streaming components comprising a control module, a camera, a gyroscope, a power management system, a battery and a radio; and

is friction fit onto a bill of a hat;

and

(ii) each portable video capture and transmission device comprises a camera and a wireless transmitter and is configured to wirelessly stream video data captured by the camera comprised by that portable video capture and transmission device to an access point from a set of wireless access points;

and

(b) the set of wireless access points

wherein;

(A) each of the portable video capture and transmission devices is configured to wirelessly stream video data along with information indicating, for each frame of the streamed video data, angular velocity of that portable video capture and transmission device when that frame of streamed video data was captured;

(B) the system comprises one or more servers located remotely from the plurality of portable video capture and transmission devices and configured to perform steps comprising, for each stream of video data from the portable video capture and transmission devices, using a smoothing function which takes angular velocity data as input to crop and translate video frames from that stream of video data.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the system comprises a command and control computer configured to present an interface to a user which is operable by the user to specify a different reduction in impact of the smoothing function for each portable video capture and transmission device from the plurality of video capture and transmission devices.