APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING REALISTIC BROADCASTING

• US 20140115649A1
• Filed: 10/18/2013
• Published: 04/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: KIM, Sung-Hee, LEE, Hyun-Woo, BAE, Seong-Jun, RYU, Won
• Application Number:
  US14/057,976
• Publication Number:
  US 20140115649A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/116
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234 Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing of video streams or manipulating encoded video stream scene graphs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25841 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; arrangements for identifying locations of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/51; location of the user terminal in data switching networks H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4131 home appliance, e.g. lighting, air conditioning system, metering devices home automation data switching networks exchanging configuration information on appliance services H04L12/2807
• 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 21/64322 IP

Abstract

Provided is an apparatus for providing realistic broadcasting, the apparatus including a realistic broadcasting platform configured to divide received content into one or more modalities, curate the content with respect to each of the divided modalities, and generate a scenario based on the curated content and information about one or more realistically reproducing devices which are currently available; and an immersive media gateway configured to generate the information about one or more realistically reproducing devices, and provide a realistic broadcasting service to a user based on the curated content and the information about one or more realistically reproducing devices.

Claims

1. An apparatus for providing realistic broadcasting, the apparatus comprising:

a realistic broadcasting platform configured to divide received content into one or more modalities, curate the content with respect to each of the divided modalities, and generate a scenario based on the curated content and information about one or more realistically reproducing devices which are currently available; and

an immersive media gateway configured to generate the information about one or more realistically reproducing devices, and provide a realistic broadcasting service to a user based on the curated content and the information about one or more realistically reproducing devices.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the immersive media gateway and the realistic broadcasting platform is comprised in a mobile terminal as an application.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the immersive media gateway calculates location information indicating a physical location of a mobile terminal of a user, searches for one or more realistically reproducing devices accessible on a network based on the location information, and performs polling for the found realistically reproducing devices.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the immersive media gateway searches for the one or more realistically reproducing devices based on Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the immersive media gateway searches for the one or more realistically reproducing devices connected to the home network based on address system of the home network.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the realistic broadcasting platform curate curation information of the content to convert the content according to modalities of the received content, and, if the content is sensory content, curate the content by adding information corresponding to each modality thereof.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the generated scenario is generated by reflecting at least one of a predefined realistic service policy or a user'"'"'s preference service request.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the realistically reproducing device comprises at least one of a two-dimensional (2D) image reproducing device, a three-dimensional (3D) image reproducing device, an audio reproducing device, a fragrance generating apparatus and a vibration generating apparatus.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, the immersive media gateway maps each of the one or more realistically reproducing devices with each modality for reproduction based on curation information included in the received scenario.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the immersive media gateway operates in sync with the one or more realistically reproducing devices.

11. A method for providing realistic broadcasting, the method comprising:

searching for one or more realistically reproducing devices which is currently available, and generating realistically reproducing device information;

generating sensory content by curating each of one or more modalities in received content;

generating a scenario based on the sensory content and the realistically reproducing device information;

configuring a realistic broadcasting space based on the generated scenario; and

providing a realistic broadcasting service to a user using one or more realistically reproducing devices composing the realistic broadcasting space.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the generating of the scenario comprises

converting the received content into the sensory content by curating curation information included in the content according to each modality of the content;

and

generating the scenario by reflecting a predefined realistic service policy or a user'"'"'s preference service request to the converted sensory content.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the generating of the realistically reproducing device information comprises

calculating location information indicating a physical location of a mobile terminal of a user;

searching for one or more realistically reproducing devices accessible on a network based on the location information and performing polling for the found realistically reproducing devices; and

generating the realistically reproducing device information about the found realistically reproducing devices.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the one or more realistically reproducing devices are found based on Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the one or more realistically reproducing devices are connected to a home network according to address system of the home network.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the generating of the scenario comprises curating the received content to convert curation information to be suitable for modalities of the content, and, if the content is sensory content, curating the content by adding information corresponding to each modality thereof.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein the realistically reproducing device comprises at least one of a two-dimensional (2D) image reproducing device, a three-dimensional (3D) image reproducing device, an audio reproducing device, a fragrance generating apparatus and a vibration generating apparatus.

18. The method of claim 11, further comprising

mapping each of the one or more realistically reproducing devices with each modality for reproduction based on curation information included in the received scenario.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein the providing of a realistic broadcasting service to the user using the one or more realistically reproducing devices comprises synchronizing the one or more realistically reproducing devices.