Overlay non-video content on a mobile device

• US 9,762,817 B2
• Filed: 09/21/2015
• Issued: 09/12/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Osman, Steven
• Primary Examiner(s): KHAN, USMAN A
• Application Number:
  US14/860,239
• Publication Number:
  US 20160014350A1
• Time in Patent Office: 722 Days
• Field of Search: 348239
• 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, the at least one marker including at least one time code which identifies a 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 synchronized with the temporal position of the video content using the at least one time code; 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 at least one marker comprises encoded audio.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one marker comprises an anchored pattern.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is further configured to identify a size of the video content.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is further configured to identify an orientation of the video content.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein a type of the non-video content comprises content specified by a user.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one marker includes one or more markers each having a different value.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the non-video content is pre-loaded onto the mobile device.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the non-video content comprises views or angles based on an angle of the mobile device.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one marker comprises a digital watermark.

11. 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 at least one marker including at least one time code which identifies a 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 synchronized with the temporal position of the video content using the at least one time code; 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 using the video camera.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the at least one marker comprises encoded audio.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the at least one marker comprises an anchored encoded image.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the mobile device is further configured to identify a size of the video content.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the mobile device is further configured to identify an orientation of the video content.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein a type of the non-video content comprises content specified by a user.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the at least one marker includes one or more markers each having a different value.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the non-video content is pre-loaded onto the mobile device.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the non-video content comprises views or angles based on an angle of the mobile device.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the non-video content includes at least one of text, animations, graphic enhancements, advertisements, and hyperlinks.