METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING DATA FOR CONTROLLING A SYSTEM FOR RENDERING AT LEAST ONE SIGNAL

• US 20110245941A1
• Filed: 12/02/2009
• Published: 10/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Signify Holding B.V. (Signify N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: De Waele, Stijn, Braspenning, Ralph, Westerink, Joanne Henriette Desiree Monique
• Granted Patent: US 8,604,328 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/90
• CPC Class Codes: A63J 17/00 Apparatus for performing colour-music
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/683 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/10 Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/79 Processing of colour television signals in connection with recording
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/155 Coordinated control of two or more light sources

Abstract

A method of generating data for controlling a rendering system (9) includes obtaining data representative of a recording of at least intervals of an event, the recording having at least two components (22,23) obtainable through different respective modalities. The data is analyzed to determine at least a dependency between a first and a second of the components (22,23). At least the dependency is used to provide settings (30) for a system (9) for rendering in perceptible form at least one output through a first modality in dependence on at least the settings and on at least one signal for rendering in perceptible form through a second modality

Claims

1. Method of generating data for controlling a rendering system (9), including:

obtaining data representative of a recording of at least intervals of an event, the recording having at least two components (22,23) obtainable through different respective modalities;

analyzing the data to determine at least a dependency between a first and a second of the components (22,23); and

using at least the dependency to provide settings (30) for a system (9) for rendering in perceptible form at least one output through a first modality in dependence on at least the settings and on at least one signal for rendering in perceptible form through a second modality.

2. Method according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the components (22,23) is obtained by intermittently recording captured data obtained using at least one sensor (2,3,7) at a venue of the event.

3. Method according to claim 2, wherein at least the intermittent recording is triggered at least partly on the basis of input from a sensor (2,3,7) at the venue of the event.

4. Method according to claim 3, wherein the trigger is based on at least one aspect of the physiology of at least one person present at the event, determined on the basis of input from at least one sensor (7) for monitoring the at least one person.

5. Method according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the components (23) of the recording includes image data.

6. Method according to claim 5, wherein the image data (23) is obtained using a camera with a wide-angle lens (4).

7. Method according to claim 5, wherein the image data (23) is obtained using a camera with a lens (4), the lens (4) being directed at least partially upwards to obtain the image data (23).

8. Method according to claim 1, wherein analyzing the data further includes analyzing at least part of the data corresponding to at least one of the components (22,23) to determine a value of at least one parameter characterizing the component concerned, and

using the at least one value to select at least one of:

a) the at least one signal for rendering in perceptible form through the second modality; and

b) data included in the settings (30).

9. Method according to claim 8, including searching a collection (26) of content data items for content data items characterized by parameter values similar to those of the analyzed component (22) according to a certain distance metric, so as to form the signal for rendering in perceptible form through the second modality.

10. Method according to claim 1, including:

causing the system for rendering in perceptible form at least one output through a first modality to operate in dependence on the settings and at least one signal for rendering in perceptible form through a second modality, the at least one signal for rendering in perceptible form through a second modality being of longer duration, when rendered, than the recording of at least intervals of the event.

12. Computer program including a set of instructions capable, when incorporated in a machine-readable medium, of causing a system having information processing capabilities to perform a method according to claim 1.

11. System for generating data for controlling a rendering system, including:

an interface (12) for obtaining data representative of a recording of at least intervals of an event, the recording having at least two components (22,23) obtainable through different respective modalities;

an analysis module (11), configured to analyze the data to determine at least a dependency between a first and a second of the components (22,23); and

a control data generation module (11), configured to use at least the dependency to provide settings for a system (9) for rendering at least one output through a first modality in dependence on at least the settings and on at least one signal for rendering in perceptible form through a second modality.