METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SHARING HOLOGRAPHIC CONTENT

• US 20150244747A1
• Filed: 02/26/2014
• Published: 08/27/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: UV Corporation (Adeia Inc.)
• Original Assignee: United Video Properties Incorporated (Adeia Inc.)
• Inventors: Wickenkamp, Vanessa, Mallardo, Amanda, Dustin, Andy, Korbecki, William J., Seyller, Douglas J., Cornell, James
• Application Number:
  US14/190,796
• Publication Number:
  US 20150244747A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
• 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

Abstract

Methods and systems are described herein for a media guidance application that presents holographic media content using a holographic interface and monitors the user and/or area about the holographic interface for user interactions that may cause the media guidance application to execute a media guidance function such as instructing another holographic interface to generate for display a portion of the holographic media content.

Claims

1. A method for sharing content between a plurality of users, the method comprising:

generating for display holographic media content at a first holographic interface;

detecting a first user interaction at the first holographic interface associated with a portion of the holographic media content;

determining a trajectory associated with the first user interaction;

identifying a second holographic interface associated with the trajectory; and

in response to identifying the second holographic interface associated with the trajectory, instructing the second holographic interface to generate for display the portion of the holographic media content.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising selecting the portion of the holographic media content based on a user input defining geometric bounds of the portion of the holographic media content as displayed at the first holographic interface.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising selecting the portion of the holographic media content in response to determining a user is focusing on the portion of the holographic media content.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining a direction associated with the trajectory;

determining a distance associated with the trajectory; and

searching for holographic interfaces at the determined direction and determined distance.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining a speed associated with the first user interaction;

cross-referencing the speed with a database associated with projected distances corresponding to different speeds of user interactions to determine a projected distance associated with the speed; and

selecting the second holographic interface in response to determining an actual distance between the first holographic interface and the second holographic interface corresponds to the projected distance associated with the speed.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the trajectory associated with the first user interaction is based on movements associated with a hand of a user within a predetermined proximity to the first holographic interface.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a user input identifying a user authorized to view the portion of the holographic media content; and

determining the second holographic interface is associated with the user authorized to view the portion of the holographic media content.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising modifying how the portion of the holographic media content at the second holographic interface is perceived by a user associated with the second holographic interface based on a display setting corresponding to the user.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining a plurality of acceptable user interactions associated with the first holographic interface; and

processing the first user interaction in response to determining that the first user interaction corresponds to one of the plurality of acceptable user interactions.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the first holographic interface includes an optical user device.

11. A system for sharing content between a plurality of users, the system comprising:

first holographic interface circuitry configured to generate for display holographic media content at a first holographic interface; and

control circuitry configured to;

detect a first user interaction at the first holographic interface associated with a portion of the holographic media content;

determine a trajectory associated with the first user interaction;

identify a second holographic interface associated with the trajectory; and

instruct second holographic interface circuitry, associated with the second holographic interface, to generate for display the portion of the holographic media content in response to identifying the second holographic interface associated with the trajectory.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the control circuitry is further configured to select the portion of the holographic media content based on a user input defining geometric bounds of the portion of the holographic media content as displayed at the first holographic interface.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the control circuitry is further configured to select the portion of the holographic media content in response to determining a user is focusing on the portion of the holographic media content.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the control circuitry is further configured to:

determine a direction associated with the trajectory;

determine a distance associated with the trajectory; and

search for holographic interfaces at the determined direction and determined distance.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein the control circuitry is further configured to:

determine a speed associated with the first user interaction;

cross-reference the speed with a database associated with projected distances corresponding to different speeds of user interactions to determine a projected distance associated with the speed; and

select the second holographic interface in response to determining an actual distance between the first holographic interface and the second holographic interface corresponds to the projected distance associated with the speed.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the trajectory associated with the first user interaction is based on movements associated with a hand of a user within a predetermined proximity to the first holographic interface.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein the control circuitry is further configured to:

receive a user input identifying a user authorized to view the portion of the holographic media content; and

determine the second holographic interface is associated with the user authorized to view the portion of the holographic media content.

18. The system of claim 11, wherein the control circuitry is further configured to instruct the second holographic interface circuitry, associated with the second holographic interface, to modify how the portion of the holographic media content at the second holographic interface is perceived by a user associated with the second holographic interface based on a display setting corresponding to the user.

19. The system of claim 11, wherein the control circuitry is further configured to:

determine a plurality of acceptable user interactions associated with the first holographic interface; and

process the first user interaction in response to determining that the first user interaction corresponds to one of the plurality of acceptable user interactions.

20. The system of claim 11, wherein the first holographic interface includes an optical user device.

21-50. -50. (canceled)