Method for presenting video content on a hand-held electronic device

• US 20130044258A1
• Filed: 10/17/2011
• Published: 02/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/15/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Condition One, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Condition One, Inc.
• Inventors: Dennis, Danfung
• Application Number:
  US13/317,342
• Publication Number:
  US 20130044258A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/445
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/04 Context-preserving transformations, e.g. by using an importance map panospheric to cylindrical image transformations G06T3/12

Abstract

A method of opening productive formations by slot-perforating, includes providing a working fluid which contains water, and abrasive component, and an additive; supplying the working fluid at a high pressure towards a formation so as to cut slots and to provide an inflow of oil, gas or hydro-geological liquid from the formation into a borehole; and using as the additive-ethylene glycol so as to reduce density of the working fluid and therefore to increase a speed of jet of the working fluid due to increase of kinetic energy of particles of the abrasive component.

Claims

1. A method of displaying streaming video on an electronic tablet in a way that realizes an immersive viewing experience, comprising the steps of:

downloading an edited moving video file in a compressed format comprising a set of pixel data representative of a subject area field of view (FOV) first captured as raw video data using a digital SLR camera affixed with a hemispheric lens;

displaying a framed portion of the edited moving video file, said framed portion comprising a default FOV defined by a subset of the pixel data representative of the subject area FOV; and

in response to user input, modifying the pixel data content of the default FOV being displayed to convey an appearance of panning.

2. The method as set forth in claim 1, further including providing in the electronic tablet means for controlling a the pixel content of the default FOV in response to said user input and detecting said user input by the means for controlling to thereby modify the content of the default FOV.

3. The method as set forth in claim 2, further including providing in the means for controlling at least one of an accelerometer, a three-axis gyroscope, a touch input device, a mouse-like input device and keyboard.

4. The method as set forth in claim 3, further including responding by the means for controlling to said user input as various movements mimicking panning and/or titling in any azimuth and elevational direction to change an attitude of the electronic tablet and thereby modify a content of the default FOV.

5. The method as set forth in claim 1, further including utilizing a digital SLR camera to which the hemispheric lens is affixed to capture and compress video content comprising the subject area FOV, pre-editing.

6. The method as set forth in claim 5, further including transcoding the compressed video content from a circular to an equi-rectangular projection for editing.

7. The method as set forth in claim 6, further including implementing the transcoding of the compressed video content from a circular to an equirectangular projection for editing using a FullDome™

plugin.

8. The method as set forth in claim 6, further including editing to generate a ProRes422HQ movie file format.

9. The method as set forth in claim 6, further including in the editing, processing each frame of the subject area FOV to an edited format that is displayed in a way that renders the default FOV as if comprising a portion of a surface of an inside of a spherical dome.

10. The method as set forth in claim 8, further including after editing, compressing the edited equi-rectangular projection data in movie file format to an H.264 format that upon unwrapping during playing appear as if projected onto an inner surface of a portion of a concave sphere.

11. The method as set forth in claim 1, further including using a Canon 5D or 60D as the camera and 4.5 mm fisheye lens as the lens.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a series of computer readable programmable instructions configured for execution by at least one processor for performing a method of displaying streaming video on an electronic tablet in a way that realizes an immersive viewing experience, said method comprising the steps of:

downloading an edited moving video file in a compressed format comprising a set of pixel data representative of a subject area field of view (FOV) first captured as raw video data using a digital SLR camera affixed with a hemispheric lens;

displaying a framed portion of the edited moving video file, said framed portion comprising a default FOV defined by a subset of the pixel data representative of the subject area FOV; and

in response to user input, modifying the pixel data content of the default FOV being displayed to convey an appearance of panning

13. A system for creating and displaying streaming video on an electronic tablet such that a viewer of the streaming video appears immersed in a subject area within which the streaming video was captured, comprising

a digital SLR camera with an ultrawide hemispheric lens for capturing moving image data over a substantially convex semi-spherical field of view within the subject area;

means for electronically converting the captured moving image data to a streaming video file; and

an electronic tablet configured for receiving and displaying a portion of the received streaming video file comprising a default field of view (FOV), wherein a content of said received streaming video file defined by said default FOV is modified by panning or tilting the electronic tablet.

14. The system as set forth in claim 13, wherein said electronic tablet comprises a processor, a gyroscope and an accelerometer and wherein at least one of said gyroscope and said accelerometer respond to said panning or tilting by generating signals utilized by said processor to control a content of said streaming video displayed in said default FOV.

16. The system as set forth in claim 14, wherein said electronic tablet comprises an Apple iPAD,™

iPAD 2™

or like electronic pad or device.

17. The system as set forth in claim 14, wherein the means for electronically converting the captured moving image data to a streaming video file include means for editing the moving image data so that it can be displayed in the electronic tablet as if the display screen were an inner surface of a dome-like object.

15. The system as set forth in claim 15, wherein scenes corresponding to said default FOV are seen by a viewer as if he or she is located in a focal point of a substantially concave semi-spherical surface.

18. An electronic tablet comprising means for receiving and displaying a portion of a streaming video file comprising a default field of view (FOV) formatted to appear as if projected on an inner surface portion of a hemispheric shell, the streaming video file electronically converted from streaming image data captured by a digital SLR camera with an ultrawide hemispheric lens in a substantially convex, semi-spherical field of view (FOV), and means for modifying the default FOV within the streaming video file by panning or tilting the electronic tablet.