Apparatus for adapting a presentation of media content to a requesting device

• US 10,602,233 B2
• Filed: 08/01/2018
• Issued: 03/24/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Meuninck, Troy C., Bedingfield, Sr., James Carlton, Brown, William A., DeLorme, David Brux, Morris, Nadia, Ng, Virginia S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Salce, Jason P
• Application Number:
  US16/052,211
• Publication Number:
  US 20180343503A1
• Time in Patent Office: 601 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/161 Encoding, multiplexing or demultiplexing different image signal components for multi-view video sequence encoding H04N19/597
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/194 Transmission of image signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/332 Displays for viewing with the aid of special glasses or head-mounted displays [HMD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234336 by media transcoding, e.g. video is transformed into a slideshow of still pictures or audio is converted into text
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2358 for generating different versions, e.g. for different recipient devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/440236 by media transcoding, e.g. video is transformed into a slideshow of still pictures, audio is converted into text
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6131 involving transmission via a mobile phone network wireless downlink channel access H04W74/006
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2213/007 Aspects relating to detection of stereoscopic image format, e.g. for adaptation to the display format
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2213/008 Aspects relating to glasses for viewing stereoscopic images

Abstract

A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media processor having a controller to record stereoscopic media content supplied by a multimedia system, receive from a communication device a request for the recorded stereoscopic media content, determine rendering capabilities of the communication device, generate transcoded content by transcoding the recorded stereoscopic media content according to the rendering capabilities of the communication device, and transmit to the communication device the transcoded content. Other embodiments are disclosed and contemplated.

Claims

1. A mobile communication device, comprising:

a memory to store executable instructions; and

a processing system including a processor communicatively coupled to the memory, wherein the processing system, responsive to executing the executable instructions, performs operations comprising;

receiving a control command from first shutter glasses;

transmitting, to a media processor device, control information according to the control command;

receiving, from the media processor device, stereoscopic media content that is modified by the media processor device according to the control information; and

presenting the stereoscopic media content in stereoscopic form.

2. The mobile communication device of claim 1, wherein the mobile communication device communicates with the media processor device via a cellular communication network.

3. The mobile communication device of claim 1, wherein the mobile communication device communicates with the media processor device via a wireless communication link between the mobile communication device and the media processor device.

4. The mobile communication device of claim 1, wherein the media processor device modifies the stereoscopic media content by transcoding the stereoscopic media content according to rendering capabilities of the mobile communication device.

5. The mobile communication device of claim 4, wherein the operation further comprise transmitting, to the media processor device, a request for the stereoscopic media content, wherein the request includes information associated with rendering capabilities of the mobile communication device.

6. The mobile communication device of claim 5, wherein the rendering capabilities of the mobile communication device comprise capabilities of a display of the communication device to process stereoscopic images.

7. The mobile communication device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise transmitting, to the media processor device, an indication that the first shutter glasses are communicatively coupled to the mobile communication device.

8. The mobile communication device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise transmitting a synchronization signal to the first shutter glasses to synchronize the first shutter glasses to the stereoscopic media content that is presented at the mobile communication device.

9. The mobile communication device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving, from the media processor device, second stereoscopic content; and

presenting the second stereoscopic content with the stereoscopic content using image multiplexing such that the stereoscopic media content is viewable via the first shutter glasses, and the second stereoscopic content is concurrently viewable via second shutter glasses.

10. The mobile communication device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving, from the media processor device, monoscopic media content that is transcoded by the media processor device according to rendering capabilities of the mobile communication device.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium operating at a shutter glasses device, comprising instructions which when executed by processing system including a processor facilitate performance of operations comprising:

receiving a control input at a user interface; and

transmitting, to a mobile communication device, a control command according to the control input, wherein the mobile communication device transmits, to a media processor device, control information based on the control command, wherein the mobile communication device receives, from the media processor device, stereoscopic media content that is modified by the media processor device according to the control information, and wherein the mobile communication device presents the stereoscopic media content in stereoscopic form for viewing via the shutter glasses device.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving, from the mobile communication device, a synchronization signal; and

synchronizing the shutter glasses to the stereoscopic media content according to the synchronization signal.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the mobile communication device transmits, to the media processor device, an indication that the shutter glasses are communicatively coupled to the mobile communication device.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the media processor device modifies the stereoscopic media content by transcoding the stereoscopic media content according to rendering capabilities of the mobile communication device.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the stereoscopic media content is transmitted, by the media processor device, as a packet stream conforming to a real-time, Internet protocol.

16. A method, comprising:

transmitting, by a mobile communication device, control information to a media processor device according to a control command received from stereoscopic glasses;

receiving, by the mobile communication device, stereoscopic media content from the media processor device, wherein the stereoscopic media content is modified by the media processor device according to the control information; and

presenting, by the mobile communication device, the stereoscopic media content in stereoscopic form.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the command is generated by the stereoscopic glasses responsive to capturing a user input at a user interface of the stereoscopic glasses.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the mobile communication device communicates with the media processor device via a cellular communication network.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising transmitting, by the mobile communication device, a request, to the media processor device, for the stereoscopic media content, wherein the request includes information associated with rendering capabilities of the mobile communication device, and wherein the media processor device modifies the stereoscopic media content by transcoding the stereoscopic media content according to the rendering capabilities of the mobile communication device.

20. The method of claim 16, further comprising transmitting, by the mobile communication device, a synchronization signal to the stereoscopic glasses to synchronize the stereoscopic glasses to the stereoscopic media content that is presented at the mobile communication device.