Method for implementing rich video on mobile terminals

• US 20110096844A1
• Filed: 03/13/2009
• Published: 04/28/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Dufosse, Stéphane, Lefevre, Valentin, Osmond, Marin, Saada, Stéphane, Livet, Nicolas, Poupel, Olivier
• Application Number:
  US12/736,083
• Publication Number:
  US 20110096844A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 375/240.25
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44012 involving rendering scenes according to scene graphs, e.g. MPEG-4 scene graphs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44016 involving splicing one content stream with another content stream, e.g. for substituting a video clip
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4402 involving reformatting operations of video signals for household redistribution, storage or real-time display details of conversion of video standards at pixel level H04N7/01; video transcoding H04N19/40; adapting incoming signals to the display format of the display terminal G09G5/005; media handling at the source in data packet switching networks H04L65/764
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4725 using interactive regions of the image, e.g. hot spots details of information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/00 Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/262 Studio circuits, e.g. for mixing, switching-over, change of character of image, other special effects ; Cameras specially adapted for the electronic generation of special effects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only

Abstract

A communication method comprising the display, on a communication mobile terminal (2) equipped with a camera, a rich video comprising a real filmed scene in which are imbedded additional visual elements connected with said scene, within which video enrichment operations are carried out within a remote communication system (3) and are rendered on the mobile terminal (2) in real time.

Claims

1. A communication method comprising the display, on a communicating mobile terminal equipped with a camera, of an enhanced video comprising a real filmed scene within which are embedded additional visual elements connected with said scene, which method comprises the following operations:

establishment of a media session between the mobile terminal and a remote communication system;

the terminal filming, by means of the camera, a non-enhanced video comprising said real filmed scene;

transmission of the non-enhanced video, in real time, by the mobile terminal to the communication system;

the communication system receiving the non-enhanced video;

a real-time analysis of the filmed scene, within the communication system;

selecting, within a database of the communication system, one or more additional media objects related to the filmed scene;

associating at least one interactive functionality that may be activated from the terminal with at least one object from among said additional media objects;

adding the object or additional media objects thereby selected to the un-enhanced video, in order to form an enhanced video;

the communication system transmitting the enhanced video, in real time, to the mobile terminal;

the communication system receiving said command operation;

the communication system analyzing the command;

updating the apparent properties of at least one media object within the communication system, in accordance with the command received (for example, according to a preestablished scenario);

the communication system transmitting at least one updated media object, in real time, to the terminal;

the updated media object being played back by the terminal, in real time;

the updated media object being displayed by the terminal, in real time.

2. A method according to claim 1, which comprises, between the receipt of the video enhanced by the communication system and analysis of the filmed scene, a video decoding operation, analysis being carried out from an uncompressed video format.

3. A method according to claim 1, which comprises a command operation, made from the terminal, of an interaction offered by the media object, and an update operation of the apparent properties of the media object carried out by the communication system as a function of a pre-established scenario.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein the command operation is activated by means of a keyboard of the terminal.

5. A communication system comprising:

a media server, capable of establishing a media session with a mobile terminal;

a video application server, connected to the media server, and on which is implemented an enhanced video application;

an augmented reality server connected to the video application server, programmed, upon a command from the video application server (6) to carry out an image analysis within a non-enhanced video received from the mobile terminal via the media server or a command analysis associated with an additional media object;

a media object database, connected to the augmented reality server.

6. A communication system according to claim 5, which further comprises an encoder/decoder connected to the augmented reality server and to the media server, configured to decompress a non-enhanced video received from the mobile terminal via the media server, or conversely to compress an enhanced video to be transmitted to the terminal via the media server.