SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AND SHARING PANORAMIC MOMENTS

• US 20140232819A1
• Filed: 02/19/2013
• Published: 08/21/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: TourWrist, Inc.
• Original Assignee: TourWrist, Inc.
• Inventors: Armstrong, Charles Robert
• Application Number:
  US13/770,951
• Publication Number:
  US 20140232819A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/39
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/21805 enabling multiple viewpoints, e.g. using a plurality of cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25 Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication, learning user preferences for recommending movies maintenance or administration in data networks H04L41/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4122 additional display device, e.g. video projector digital output for controlling a plurality of local displays G06F3/1423
• 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 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6587 Control parameters, e.g. trick play commands, viewpoint selection

Abstract

An entertainment server provides an entertainment consumer with visual entertainment media. The entertainment consumer sends a request to a panoramic moment generator to export a panoramic moment of the visual entertainment media to a viewer'"'"'s display device for a viewer, the panoramic moment including panoramic content. The panoramic content can be comprised of still image(s) and/or video(s).

Claims

1. A computerized method for sharing a user-selectable panoramic moment, useful in association a plurality of display devices coupled to each other via a network, the method comprising:

receiving, from a first display device, a request from an entertainment consumer to export a panoramic moment of a visual entertainment media, wherein the panoramic moment includes panoramic content selected by the entertainment consumer; and

generating and providing the panoramic moment to a second display device for a viewer.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the panoramic content comprises at least one still image.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the panoramic content comprises at least one video having at least one of a temporal proximity and a duration.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the panoramic moment includes at least one of supplemental information, a foreign language translation and a message.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the first display device receives, from the second display device, a viewing track of the panoramic moment by the viewer.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising providing at least one recommended panoramic moment to at least one of the viewer and the entertainment consumer.

7. A computerized method for sharing a user-selectable panoramic moment, useful in association with a panoramic moment generator coupled to a plurality of display devices via a network, the method comprising:

receiving a visual entertainment media from an entertainment server, the visual entertainment media to be displayed at a first display device associated with an entertainment consumer; and

sending a request from the first display device to a panoramic moment generator to export a panoramic moment of the visual entertainment media to a second display device for a viewer, wherein the panoramic moment includes panoramic content selected by the entertainment consumer.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the panoramic content comprises at least one still image.

9. The method of claim 7 wherein the panoramic content comprises at least one video having at least one of a temporal proximity and a duration.

10. The method of claim 7 wherein the panoramic moment includes at least one of supplemental information, a foreign language translation and a message.

11. The method of claim 7 further comprising receiving, from the second display device, a viewing track of the panoramic moment by the viewer.

12. The method of claim 7 further comprising receiving at least one recommended panoramic moment to at least one of the viewer and the entertainment server.

13. A computerized method for sharing a user-selectable panoramic moment, useful in association with a panoramic moment generator coupled to a plurality of display devices via a network, the method comprising:

displaying a visual entertainment media at a first display device associated with an entertainment consumer; and

generating and exporting a panoramic moment of the visual entertainment media to a second display device for a viewer, wherein the panoramic moment includes panoramic content selected by the entertainment consumer.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the panoramic content comprises at least one still image.

15. The method of claim 13 wherein the panoramic content comprises at least one video having at least one of a temporal proximity and a duration.

16. The method of claim 13 wherein the panoramic moment includes at least one of supplemental information, a foreign language translation and a message.

17. The method of claim 13 wherein the first display device receives, from the second display device, a viewing track of the panoramic moment by the viewer.

18. The method of claim 13 further comprising providing at least one recommended panoramic moment to at least one of the viewer and the entertainment consumer.

19. The method of claim 13 further comprising exporting at least one of sales and marketing media with the panoramic moment.