Overlay non-video content on a mobile device

• US 9,143,699 B2
• Filed: 07/20/2012
• Issued: 09/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Osman, Steven
• Primary Examiner(s): KHAN, USMAN A
• Application Number:
  US13/554,958
• Publication Number:
  US 20130194437A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,159 Days
• Field of Search: 348/239
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23892 involving embedding information at multiplex stream level, e.g. embedding a watermark at packet level
• 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 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43079 of additional data with content streams on multiple devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44008 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in the video stream arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/2621 Cameras specially adapted for the electronic generation of special effects during image pickup, e.g. digital cameras, camcorders, video cameras having integrated special effects capability
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/272 Means for inserting a foreground image in a background image, i.e. inlay, outlay

Abstract

Methods, systems, and devices are described for presenting non-video content through a mobile device that uses a video camera to track a video on another screen. In one embodiment, a system includes a video display, such as a TV, that displays video content. A mobile device with an integrated video camera captures video data from the TV and allows a user to select an area in the video in order to hear/feel/smell what is at that location in the video.

Claims

1. A system for augmenting a video, the system comprising:

a video source configured to provide video content to a video display; and

a mobile device with a video camera and display, the mobile device configured to;

capture video data including the video content from the video display using the video camera, the video content from the video display having at least one marker identifying a temporal position within the video content, the temporal position corresponding to at least a portion of time in the video content;

track the video content in the captured video data;

receive a user selection of a subportion of an image in the captured video data;

access non-video content associated with the subportion of the image and responsive to the temporal position of the video content, the temporal position identified by the at least one marker; and

present the accessed non-video content associated with the subportion of the image to a user at substantially the same time as the video content is captured using the video camera.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the video camera is integrated with the mobile device.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the video source comprises a device selected from the group consisting of a video disc player and a video game console.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein a physical marker off the video display includes a marker formatted to allow the mobile device to track the video content in the captured video data.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the non-video content is audio content associated with the selected subportion of the image in the captured video data.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the non-video content is tactile content associated with the selected subportion of the image in the captured video data.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the non-video content is olfactory content associated with the selected subportion of the image in the captured video data.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein presenting the mobile device is configured to present the olfactory content using chemical synthesis.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein presenting the mobile device is configured to present the olfactory content using essential oils.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is configured to track the video content by identifying a position and orientation of the video content relative to the mobile device.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a non-video content datastore, remote from the video display and mobile device and in communication with the mobile device, configured to store the non-video content, wherein the mobile device accesses the non-video content from the content datastore.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the video source is configured to store the non-video content, and the mobile device accesses the non-video content from the video source.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein, the at least one marker is a pattern of dots.

14. A computer-implemented method for augmenting video, the method comprising:

capturing video data including video content from a video display, the video data captured with a video camera operatively coupled to a mobile device, the video content from the video display having at least one marker identifying a temporal position within the video content, the temporal position corresponding to at least a portion of time in the video content;

tracking the video content in the captured video data;

receiving a user selection of a subportion of an image in the captured video data;

accessing non-video content associated with the subportion of the image and responsive to the temporal position of the video content, the temporal position identified by the at least one marker; and

presenting the accessed non-video content associated with the subportion of the image to a user at substantially the same time as the video content is captured with the video camera.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, wherein,

the video content displayed on the video display includes a marker formatted to allow the video content to be tracked and the video content to be identified;

the marker changes over time to allow a temporal position in the identified video content to be identified; and

the non-video content includes at least one of audio, tactile, or olfactory information.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, wherein, the at least one marker is an invisible watermark.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 16, wherein, the invisible watermark is in select, predictable areas of the screen.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, wherein, the at least one marker is embedded in subtitles of the video.

19. A computer-implemented method for augmenting video, the method comprising:

receiving video data captured with a video camera operatively coupled with a mobile device, the video data including video content captured from a video display;

identifying the video content captured from the video display;

identifying a temporal position within the video content, the temporal position corresponding to at least a portion of time in the video content; and

accessing non-video content to be presented to a user substantially at the same time as the video content, the non-video content selected based at least in part on the identified video content.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 19, further comprising:

tracking the video content in the captured video data, wherein the tracking comprises identifying a relative position and orientation of the video content.