METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING OBJECT BASED MEDIA MIXING

• US 20110202603A1
• Filed: 02/12/2010
• Published: 08/18/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/12/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Mate, Sujeet Shyamsundar, Eronen, Antti, Ojanpera, Juha
• Application Number:
  US12/704,844
• Publication Number:
  US 20110202603A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1059 End-user terminal functionalities specially adapted for real-time communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1063 Application servers providing network services systems providing special services to telephonic subscribers H04M3/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/61 for supporting one-way streaming services, e.g. Internet radio
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/765 intermediate
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234318 by decomposing into objects, e.g. MPEG-4 objects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2393 involving handling client requests scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests H04L67/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4728 for selecting a Region Of Interest [ROI], e.g. for requesting a higher resolution version of a selected region
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6587 Control parameters, e.g. trick play commands, viewpoint selection

Abstract

An apparatus for providing object based media mixing may include at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code may be configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least receiving an indication of shared content to be provided to a plurality of group members, receiving a selection of a region of interest within the shared content, receiving social interaction media associated with at least one of the group members, and mixing the shared content with the social interaction media to provide mixed content. The mixed content may be dynamically modified to avoid overlaying the social interaction media over the region of interest. A corresponding method and computer program product are also provided.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform:

receiving an indication of shared content to be provided to a plurality of group members;

receiving a selection of a region of interest within the shared content;

receiving social interaction media associated with at least one of the group members; and

mixing the shared content with the social interaction media to provide mixed content, the mixed content being dynamically modified to avoid overlaying the social interaction media over the region of interest.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are further configured to, with the at least one processor, further cause the apparatus to provide the mixed content to at least one remote client device associated with one of the group members.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are further configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to receive the indication of shared content and the social interaction media via different data streams.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are further configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to receive region of interest selections from multiple ones of the plurality of group members.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are further configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to mix the shared content with the social media content responsive to tracking movement of the region of interest and, in response to movement of the region of interest to a position at which a portion of the region of interest overlaps a portion of a content item of the social interaction media, moving a position of the content item from a location at which the portion of the content item does not overlap the portion of the region of interest.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are further configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to receive the selection of the region of interest in association with receiving an indication of content to overlay the region of interest.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are further configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to receive the indication of content to overlay the region of interest based on current context information.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the apparatus is embodied at a mobile terminal.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the apparatus is embodied at a network service platform.

10. A method comprising:

receiving an indication of shared content to be provided to a plurality of group members;

receiving a selection of a region of interest within the shared content;

receiving social interaction media associated with at least one of the group members; and

mixing the shared content with the social interaction media to provide mixed content, the mixed content being dynamically modified to avoid overlaying the social interaction media over the region of interest.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising providing the mixed content to at least one remote client device associated with one of the group members.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein receiving the indication of shared content and receiving the social interaction media comprises receiving the indication of shared content and the social interaction media via different data streams.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein receiving the selection of the region of interest comprises receiving a region of interest selection from multiple ones of the plurality of group members.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein mixing the shared content with the social media content comprises tracking movement of the region of interest and, in response to movement of the region of interest to a position at which a portion of the region of interest overlaps a portion of a content item of the social interaction media, moving a position of the content item from a location at which the portion of the content item does not overlap the portion of the region of interest.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein receiving the selection of the region of interest further comprises receiving an indication of content to overlay the region of interest.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein receiving the indication of content to overlay the region of interest comprises receiving the indication based on current context information.

17. A computer program product comprising at least one computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable program code instructions stored therein, the computer-executable program code instructions comprising:

program code instructions for receiving an indication of shared content to be provided to a plurality of group members;

program code instructions for receiving a selection of a region of interest within the shared content;

program code instructions for receiving social interaction media associated with at least one of the group members; and

program code instructions for mixing the shared content with the social interaction media to provide mixed content, the mixed content being dynamically modified to avoid overlaying the social interaction media over the region of interest.

18. The computer program product of claim 17, further comprising program code instructions for providing the mixed content to at least one remote client device associated with one of the group members.

19. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein program code instructions for receiving the indication of shared content and receiving the social interaction media include instructions for receiving the indication of shared content and the social interaction media via different data streams.

20. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein program code instructions for mixing the shared content with the social media content include instructions for tracking movement of the region of interest and, in response to movement of the region of interest to a position at which a portion of the region of interest overlaps a portion of a content item of the social interaction media, moving a position of the content item from a location at which the portion of the content item does not overlap the portion of the region of interest.