SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MULTIMEDIA SERVICE IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

• US 20120023161A1
• Filed: 07/21/2011
• Published: 01/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, SK Telecom Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, SK Telecom Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: KIM, Jin-Woong, LIM, Seong-Yong, LEE, In-Jae, CHA, Ji-Hun, LIM, Young-Kwon, PARK, Min-Sik, LEE, Han-Kyu, LEE, Joong-Yun
• Application Number:
  US13/187,604
• Publication Number:
  US 20120023161A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23614 Multiplexing of additional data and video streams arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information H04H20/28
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2393 involving handling client requests scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests H04L67/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8133 specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program

Abstract

Disclosed herein are a system and a method for providing multimedia services capable of providing various types of multimedia contents and information sensed at multi-points to users at a high rate and in real time at the time of providing the multimedia contents and sense scene representation and sensory effects for multimedia contents corresponding to multimedia services through the multi-points according to service requests of the multimedia services that users want to receive, encode and transmit the sensed information for scene representation and sensory effects with binary representation according to the sensing, transmit device command data for the sensed scene representation and sensory effects, drive and control user devices according the device command data to provide the scene representation and the sensory effects for the multimedia contents to the users.

Claims

1. A system for providing multimedia services in a communication system, comprising:

a sensing unit configured to sense scene representation and sensory effects for multimedia contents corresponding to multimedia services according to service requests of the multimedia services that users want to receive;

a generation unit configured to generate sensed information corresponding to sensing of the scene representation and the sensory effects; and

a transmitting unit configured to encode the sensed information with binary representation and transmit the encoded sensed information to a server.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the sensing unit senses the scene representation and the sensor effects for the multimedia contents at multi-points so as to provide the multimedia services through user interaction with user devices at the time of providing the multimedia services.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the sensed information is defined as sensor types and attributes of multi-points and includes at least one of a multi interaction point sensor type, a gaze tracking sensor type, and a wind sensor type.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the at least one sensor type is defined as an eXtensible markup language (XML) document schema and encoded with the binary representation and transmitted to the server.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the at least one sensor type is defined as an eXtensible markup language (XML) representation syntax, descriptor components semantics, and a binary representation syntax.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the multi interaction point sensor type includes a descriptor for describing position information of the multi-points as spatial coordinates of x, y, and z and a descriptor for describing whether or not to select the multi-points.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the gaze tracking sensor type includes a descriptor for describing position and orientation of user'"'"'s eyes and a descriptor for describing a blink of user'"'"'s eyes as ‘

on/off’

, a descriptor for describing an identifier (ID) of the users, and a descriptor for describing a gaze direction of the left eye or the right eye of the users and the gaze direction of the left eye or the right eye of the users.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein the wind sensor type includes a descriptor for describing wind direction and wind velocity.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the sever receives the sensed information and transmits device command data for the sensed scene representation and sensory effects to the user devices;

and

the user devices are driven and controlled by the device command data to provide the scene representation and the sensory effects for the multimedia contents to the users.

10. A system for providing multimedia services in a communication system, comprising:

a receiving unit configured to receive sensed information at multi-points for scene representation and sensory effects for multimedia contents corresponding to the multimedia services from the multi-points according to service requests that users want to receive;

a generation unit configured to generate event data and device command data corresponding to the sensed information; and

a transmitting unit configured to encode the device command data with binary representation and transmit the encoded device command data to the user devices.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the multi-points sense the scene representation and the sensor effects for the multimedia contents so as to provide the multimedia services through user interaction with user devices at the time of providing the multimedia services.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the sensed information is defined as sensor types and attributes of multi-points, and

the event data define event types corresponding to the sensor type.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the device command data are defined as an eXtensible markup language (XML) document schema for the scene representation and the sensory effects for the multimedia contents corresponding to the sensed information and transmitted to the user devices.

14. A system of claim 10, wherein the device command data are defined as an eXtensible markup language (XML) representation syntax, descriptor components semantics, and a binary representation syntax.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the device command data are defined as an element including the attribute values meaning the target user device and a sub element among the user devices.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the device command data are defined as a command type including the attribute values meaning the target user device and the attribute values meaning the driving and control information of the target user device among the user devices.

18. The system of claim 10, wherein the user devices receive the device command data and are driven and controlled by the device command data to provide the scene representation and the sensory effects for the multimedia contents to the users.

15. The system of claim wherein the device command data are defined as elements including attribute values meaning a target user device and an attribute values meaning driving and control information of the target user device among the user devices.

19. A method for providing multimedia services in a communication system, comprising:

sensing scene representation and sensory effects for multimedia contents corresponding to multimedia services through multi-points according to service requests of the multimedia services that users want to receive;

generating sensed information for the scene representation and the sensor effects corresponding to sensing at the multi-points; and

encoding the sensed information with binary representation and transmitting the encoded sensed information.

20. A method for providing multimedia services in a communication system, comprising:

receiving sensed information at multi-points for scene representation and sensory effects for multimedia contents corresponding to the multimedia services according to service requests of multimedia services that users want to receive;

generating event data corresponding to the sensed information;

generating device command data based on the sensed information and the event data; and

encoding and transmitting the device command data by binary representation so as to drive and control user devices.