Method and apparatus for multi-experience adaptation of media content

• US 10,839,596 B2
• Filed: 02/27/2018
• Issued: 11/17/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 07/18/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Basso, Andrea, Hines, Tara, Ivanov, Aleksey, Mikan, Jeffrey, Morris, Nadia
• Primary Examiner(s): Mills, Frank D
• Application Number:
  US15/906,370
• Publication Number:
  US 20180190012A1
• Time in Patent Office: 994 Days
• Field of Search: 715202
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/65 automatically by game devices or servers from real world data, e.g. measurement in live racing competition
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 15/506 Illumination models
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2215/16 Using real world measurements to influence rendering
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1016 IP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/611 for multicast or broadcast systems for broadcast or conference H04L12/18; arrangements for broadcast or distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/00; arrangements for broadcast applications with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time H04H60/00; selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS], H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/762 at the source reformatting of additional data in video distribution servers H04N21/2355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/764 at the destination reformatting of additional data in video clients H04N21/4355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/765 intermediate
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23412 for generating or manipulating the scene composition of objects, e.g. MPEG-4 objects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2343 involving reformatting operations of video signals for distribution or compliance with end-user requests or end-user device requirements video transcoding H04N19/40; media packet handling at the source H04L65/762
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42202 environmental sensors, e.g. for detecting temperature, luminosity, pressure, earthquakes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44012 involving rendering scenes according to scene graphs, e.g. MPEG-4 scene graphs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4402 involving reformatting operations of video signals for household redistribution, storage or real-time display details of conversion of video standards at pixel level H04N7/01; video transcoding H04N19/40; adapting incoming signals to the display format of the display terminal G09G5/005; media handling at the source in data packet switching networks H04L65/764
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4781 Games
• 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 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6175 involving transmission via Internet broadcast-related systems characterised by the transmission system being the Internet H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64707 for transferring content from a first network to a second network, e.g. between IP and wireless
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6582 : Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38

Abstract

A method or apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a method for adapting media content of a source device for a recipient device. Characteristics of a first environment of a source device and of a second environment of a recipient can be identified. At least one difference between the characteristics of the first environment of the source device and the characteristics of the second environment of the recipient device can be determined. A presentation of media content can be modified according to the at least one difference between the characteristics of the first environment of the source device and the characteristics of the second environment of the recipient device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

obtaining, by a recipient device comprising a processing system including a processor, first statistical audio information calculated from a first audio signal that is sensed at a source device of a real world environment;

obtaining, by the recipient device, second statistical audio information calculated from a second audio signal of a virtual world environment simulated by the recipient device;

determining, by the recipient device, a difference between the first audio signal of the real world environment and the second audio signal of the virtual world environment according to a difference between the first statistical audio information and the second statistical audio information;

transcoding, by the recipient device according to the difference, media content from the source device to generate transcoded media content, wherein the transcoding the media content includes modifying a format of the media content; and

modifying, by the recipient device according to the difference, a presentation of the transcoded media content to mimic the first audio signal of the real world environment at the recipient device, thereby producing a simulated first audio signal, wherein the first audio signal of the real world environment is not part of the media content from the source device, wherein the simulated first audio signal is presented in the virtual world environment as being produced by an object included in the media content from the source device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the real world environment of the source device further includes first physical images of the real world environment, and further comprising altering, by the recipient device, an image in the media content according to first physical images of the real world environment.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the virtual world environment is generated at the recipient device via a video game application, a virtual world application, an application including avatars, a social media application, or any combination thereof.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the modifying of the presentation of the transcoded media content further comprises adapting, by the recipient device, a user interface of a media presentation element, wherein the adapting the user interface of the media presentation element comprises modifying an audio volume at the recipient device.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving, by the recipient device, the media content from the source device, wherein the modifying of the presentation of the transcoded media content comprises adding the first audio signal to the presentation of the media content.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising adding, by the recipient device, a modified reproduction of the first audio signal of the real world environment to the transcoded media content, wherein the modified reproduction of the first audio signal is determined according to the difference between the first audio signal of the real world environment and the second audio signal of the virtual world environment.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the real world environment of the source device further comprises a physical temperature that is sensed by the source device, wherein the virtual world environment further includes a virtual temperature.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising modifying, by the recipient device, the transcoded media content to reflect a temperature difference between the physical temperature of the real world environment and the virtual temperature of the virtual world environment.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the first statistical audio information includes a mean or a median of first sensory data that is sensed at the source device.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the transcoding further comprises changing an encoding scheme used for the media content.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the encoding scheme of the media content is changed from a streaming video format to an embedded video format.

12. A device, comprising:

a processing system including a processor; and

a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, comprising;

receiving first statistical audio information calculated from a first audio signal that is sensed at a source device of a real world environment;

obtaining second statistical audio information calculated from a second audio signal of a virtual world environment simulated by the device;

calculating a difference between the first statistical audio information and the second statistical audio information;

transcoding media content from the source device, according to the difference, to generate transcoded media content, wherein the transcoding the media content includes modifying a format of the media content;

generating a modified reproduction of the transcoded media content to mimic the first audio signal of the real world environment according to the difference between the first statistical audio information and the second statistical audio information, thereby producing a simulated first audio signal, wherein the first audio signal is not part of the media content from the source device; and

presenting the modified reproduction of the media content, wherein the simulated first audio signal is presented in the virtual world environment as being produced by an object included in the media content from the source device.

13. The device of claim 12, wherein the real world environment of the source device further comprises first physical images of the real world environment and wherein the operations further comprise altering an image in the media content according to first physical images of the real world environment.

14. The device of claim 12, wherein the media content comprises a virtual world environment that is simulated by the source device.

15. The device of claim 14, wherein the virtual world environment is generated at the source device by a video game application, a virtual world application, an application including avatars, a social media application, or any combination thereof.

16. The device of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise generating a second virtual world environment.

17. A machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

obtaining first statistical audio information determined from a first audio signal that is sensed at a source device operating at a real world environment;

identifying second statistical audio information calculated from a second audio signal of a virtual world environment simulated at a recipient device;

determining a difference between the first statistical audio information and the second statistical audio information;

transcoding media content from the source device, according to the difference, to generate transcoded media content, wherein the transcoding the media content includes modifying a format of the media content; and

adding to the transcoded media content a modified reproduction of the first audio signal, wherein the modified reproduction of the first audio signal is determined according to the difference between the first statistical audio information and the second statistical audio information, wherein the first audio signal is not part of the media content, and wherein the modified reproduction of the first audio signal is presented in the virtual world environment as being produced by an object included in the media content from the source device.

18. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the transcoding further comprises changing an encoding scheme used for the media content.

19. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein a procedure for presenting the transcoded media content with the modified reproduction of the first audio signal comprises adapting a user interface of a media presentation element.

20. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the virtual world environment is generated at the source device by a video game application, a virtual world application, an application including avatars, a social media application, or any combination thereof.