Panoramic Experience System and Method

• US 20120212574A1
• Filed: 04/30/2012
• Published: 08/23/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Turner Broadcasting System Incorporated (Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Turner Broadcasting System Incorporated (Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.)
• Inventors: Blumenfeld, Steven M.
• Granted Patent: US 8,913,143 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/36
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/66 Remote control of cameras or camera parts, e.g. by remote control devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/185 from a mobile camera, e.g. for remote control

Abstract

In one general sense, a user may be presented with a multimedia experience corresponding to an entertainment event or venue by managing a sensor array having at least two sensors that are made configured to provide a stream of data units, associating location information with sensors in the sensor array, enabling the user to perceive a map related to an entertainment event or venue, relating the perceived map to one or more sensors within the sensor array, receiving a user request identifying a selected position within the map, identifying one or more sensors within the sensor array corresponding to the selection, and presenting to the user a multimedia experience based on one or more streams of data units associated with the selected sensors.

Claims

1. A method of presenting a multimedia experience to a user from across the Internet for an event, the method comprising:

registering two or more video camera units with a host for an event, wherein each of the video camera units is configured to provide dynamic location information for an attached video camera, wherein the dynamic location information for the attached video camera changes as the attached video camera is moved during the event;

generating a topology for the event, wherein the topology provides a model for the event in which the video camera moves within the event;

relating the dynamic location information for the event with the topology;

generating a map based on the topology that reflects the dynamic location information of the video cameras in the topology; and

enabling the user to interact with the map so that the user can navigate from a first camera in the video cameras to a second camera in the video cameras to change the perspective that the user perceives in viewing the event.