DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING FOR INTERACTIVE VIDEO

• US 20100186061A1
• Filed: 01/18/2010
• Published: 07/22/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Happy Cloud, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Happy Cloud, Inc.
• Inventors: RAANAN, GAVRIEL, GUEDALIA, JACOB, REISLER, LAWRENCE, GUEDALIA, ISAAC DAVID
• Application Number:
  US12/688,943
• Publication Number:
  US 20100186061A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/136
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/12 involving interaction between a plurality of game devices, e.g. transmisison or distribution systems protocols for networked virtual reality, networked games H04L29/06034
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/30 Interconnection arrangements between game servers and game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/355 Performing operations on behalf of clients with restricted processing capabilities, e.g. servers transform changing game scene into an encoded video stream for transmitting to a mobile phone or a thin client
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/538 for performing operations on behalf of the game client, e.g. rendering
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6607 for animating game characters, e.g. skeleton kinematics
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2343 involving reformatting operations of video signals for distribution or compliance with end-user requests or end-user device requirements video transcoding H04N19/40; media packet handling at the source H04L65/762
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234363 by altering the spatial resolution, e.g. for clients with a lower screen resolution
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4781 Games
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6587 Control parameters, e.g. trick play commands, viewpoint selection
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

Processing interactive software supporting video, including a first computer configured to execute an interactive process and display a video stream response, where the interactive process responds to an external input by generating a control signal and sending the control signal, a remote console configured to receive the control signal and send the video stream response where the video stream response is computed by the remote console, and a hardware interface configured to convert the control signal from a first format to a second format and to convert the video stream response from the second format to the first format where the first computer sends the control signal and receives the video stream response in the first format and where the remote console receives the control signal and sends the video stream response in the second format.

Claims

1. A system for processing interactive software supporting video, the system comprising:

a first computer configured to execute an interactive process and display a video stream response, wherein said interactive process responds to an external input by generating a control signal and sending said control signal;

a remote console configured to receive said control signal and send said video stream response wherein said video stream response is computed by said remote console; and

a hardware interface configured to convert said control signal from a first format to a second format and to convert said video stream response from said second format to said first format wherein said first computer sends said control signal and receives said video stream response in said first format and wherein said remote console receives said control signal and sends said video stream response in said second format.

2. The system according to claim 1 wherein said remote console is included in a second computer.

3. The system according to claim 2 wherein said hardware interface is included in said second computer.

4. The system according to claim 1 wherein said video stream response is formatted in a polygon rendering format.

5. A method for processing interactive software supporting video, the method comprising:

executing an interactive process and displaying a video stream response on a first computer, wherein said interactive process responds to an external input by generating a control signal and sending said control signal;

receiving said control signal;

computing said video stream response;

sending said video stream response; and

converting said control signal from a first format to a second format and converting said video stream response from a second format to a first format wherein said conversion steps are performed by a hardware interface, and wherein said first computer sends said control signal and receives said video stream response in said first format and wherein said remote console receives said control signal and sends said video stream response in said second format,

wherein said receiving, computing and sending steps are performed at a remote console, and

wherein said sending and said receiving steps between said hardware interface and said computer are performed over a network.

6. The method according to claim 5 wherein said remote console is included in a second computer.

7. The method according to claim 6 wherein said hardware interface is included in said second computer.

8. The method according to claim 5 wherein said video stream response is formatted in a polygon rendering format.