公开(公告)号：US09990775B2

公开(公告)日：2018-06-05

申请号：US15087891

申请日：2016-03-31

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Mohammad Raheel Khalid ,  Ali Jaafar ,  Dan Sun ,  Christian Egeler ,  John Gu ,  Jyotsna Kachroo ,  Danny C. Lui

IPC: G06T19/00 ,  H04N5/232 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/8545 ,  H04N21/2343 ,  H04N21/6405 ,  H04W4/06 ,  G06F3/048

CPC classification number: G06T19/006 ,  G06F3/048 ,  G06T15/20 ,  H04N5/23238 ,  H04N21/234363 ,  H04N21/23439 ,  H04N21/41407 ,  H04N21/4223 ,  H04N21/6131 ,  H04N21/6405 ,  H04N21/8146 ,  H04N21/8545 ,  H04W4/06

Abstract: An exemplary interactive media content provider system generates overall data representative of interactive media content. The exemplary interactive media content provider system concurrently provides the overall data to both a first media player device associated with a first user and a second media player device associated with a second user by way of a point-to-multipoint media delivery protocol. The first media player device and the second media player device may each be configured to render different portions of the overall data to respective display screens of the media player devices at a particular point in time based on different user input from the first user and the second user, respectively, as the first user and the second user independently interact with the interactive media content. Corresponding methods and systems are also described.

公开(公告)号：US20180091866A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-29

申请号：US15274066

申请日：2016-09-23

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Dan Sun ,  Syed Kamal ,  Lama Hewage Ravi Prathapa Chandrasiri ,  Mohammad Raheel Khalid ,  Christian Egeler

IPC: H04N21/63 ,  H04N21/61 ,  H04N21/647

Abstract: A first communication device communicatively coupled with a second communication device by way of a first network interface and by way of a second network interface parallel to the first network interface prepares object data in accordance with a data partitioning protocol for transmission to the second communication device. The first communication device transmits the prepared object data to the second communication device at an overall data transfer rate that is at least as great as a sum of first and second data transfer rates associated, respectively, with the first and second network interfaces by concurrently transmitting first and second portions of the prepared object data by way of the first and second network interfaces and at the first and second data transfer rates, respectively. Corresponding methods and devices for receiving concurrently transmitted object data by way of parallel network interfaces are also disclosed.

公开(公告)号：US20170316608A1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-02

申请号：US15141760

申请日：2016-04-28

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Mohammad Raheel Khalid ,  Ali Jaafar ,  Denny Breitenfeld ,  Xavier Hansen ,  Christian Egeler ,  Syed Kamal ,  Lama Hewage Ravi Prathapa Chandrasiri ,  Steven L. Smith

IPC: G06T19/00 ,  H04L29/06 ,  G06F3/01

CPC classification number: H04L67/38 ,  G06F3/011 ,  G06F3/013

Abstract: An exemplary method includes a media player device (“device”) providing a user with an immersive virtual reality experience in accordance with a specification file corresponding to the immersive virtual reality experience. The specification file includes data that defines a plurality of elements included in the immersive virtual reality experience by providing a plurality of links for use by the device in acquiring the plurality of elements while providing the user with the immersive virtual reality experience. The method further includes the device detecting, while the immersive virtual reality experience is being provided to the user, real-world input associated with the user, and integrating the real-world input into the immersive virtual reality experience by updating the specification file to further include data that defines the real-world input as a user-specific element that is specific to the user and that is included in the immersive virtual reality experience.

公开(公告)号：US10819967B2

公开(公告)日：2020-10-27

申请号：US16280915

申请日：2019-02-20

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Mohammad Raheel Khalid ,  Ali Jaafar ,  Denny Breitenfeld ,  Xavier Hansen ,  Christian Egeler ,  Syed Kamal ,  Lama Hewage Ravi Prathapa Chandrasiri ,  Steven L. Smith

IPC: H04N13/122 ,  H04N13/243 ,  H04N5/232 ,  H04N5/247

Abstract: An exemplary virtual reality media provider system differentiates static objects depicted in two-dimensional video data from dynamic objects depicted in the two-dimensional video data. Based on the differentiating of the static objects from the dynamic objects, the virtual reality media provider system generates dynamic volumetric models of the surfaces of the static objects and the dynamic objects. The virtual reality media provider system updates the dynamic volumetric models of the surfaces of the static objects with a lower regularity or on an as-needed basis, and the virtual reality media provider system separately updates the dynamic volumetric models of the surfaces of the dynamic objects with a higher regularity. The higher regularity is higher than the lower regularity and keeps the dynamic volumetric models of the surfaces of the dynamic objects up-to-date with what is occurring in the two-dimensional video data. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.

公开(公告)号：US10560755B2

公开(公告)日：2020-02-11

申请号：US15274066

申请日：2016-09-23

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Dan Sun ,  Syed Kamal ,  Lama Hewage Ravi Prathapa Chandrasiri ,  Mohammad Raheel Khalid ,  Christian Egeler

IPC: H04N19/119 ,  H04N5/77 ,  H04N21/63 ,  H04N21/61 ,  H04N21/647 ,  H04N21/2662 ,  H04N11/02

Abstract: A first communication device communicatively coupled with a second communication device by way of a first network interface and by way of a second network interface parallel to the first network interface prepares object data in accordance with a data partitioning protocol for transmission to the second communication device. The first communication device transmits the prepared object data to the second communication device at an overall data transfer rate that is at least as great as a sum of first and second data transfer rates associated, respectively, with the first and second network interfaces by concurrently transmitting first and second portions of the prepared object data by way of the first and second network interfaces and at the first and second data transfer rates, respectively. Corresponding methods and devices for receiving concurrently transmitted object data by way of parallel network interfaces are also disclosed.

公开(公告)号：US10417830B2

公开(公告)日：2019-09-17

申请号：US15967469

申请日：2018-04-30

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Mohammad Raheel Khalid ,  Ali Jaafar ,  Dan Sun ,  Christian Egeler ,  John Gu ,  Jyotsna Kachroo ,  Danny C. Lui

IPC: G06T19/00 ,  H04N21/2343 ,  H04W4/06 ,  H04N5/232 ,  G06F3/048 ,  H04N21/8545 ,  H04N21/6405 ,  H04N21/81 ,  G06T15/20 ,  H04N21/414 ,  H04N21/61 ,  H04N21/4223

Abstract: An exemplary system generates a plurality of different content files each including data representative of content of a virtual reality world, and provides the plurality of different content files to a media player device via a network. In particular, the generated and provided plurality of different content files comprises at least one of a plurality of uniform-resolution content files and a plurality of mixed-resolution content files. The plurality of uniform-resolution content files are each associated with a different respective center point within the virtual reality world. The plurality of mixed-resolution content files each correspond to one respective content sector of a plurality of partially overlapping content sectors that together form a view of the virtual reality world associated with a single center point, the one respective content sector being encoded in a high resolution while a remainder of the content sectors are encoded in a low resolution.

公开(公告)号：US10204444B2

公开(公告)日：2019-02-12

申请号：US15141717

申请日：2016-04-28

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Mohammad Raheel Khalid ,  Ali Jaafar ,  Denny Breitenfeld ,  Xavier Hansen ,  Christian Egeler ,  Syed Kamal ,  Lama Hewage Ravi Prathapa Chandrasiri ,  Steven L. Smith

IPC: G06T19/00 ,  G06T17/00 ,  G06F3/01

Abstract: An exemplary virtual reality media provider system (“system”) includes a configuration of synchronous video and depth capture devices disposed at fixed positions in a vicinity of a first object located in a natural setting along with one or more additional objects. The video and depth capture devices capture two-dimensional video data and depth data for a surface the first object. The system distinguishes the first object from a second object included in the one or more additional objects located in the natural setting and generates an individually-manipulable volumetric model of the first object. The individually-manipulable volumetric model of the first object is configured to be individually manipulated with respect to an immersive virtual reality world while a user of a media player device is experiencing the immersive virtual reality world using the media player device.

公开(公告)号：US20180122142A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-03

申请号：US15339656

申请日：2016-10-31

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Christian Egeler ,  Xavier Hansen ,  Mohammad Raheel Khalid

IPC: G06T19/00 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  G06T17/10 ,  G06F17/30

CPC classification number: G06T19/006 ,  G06F3/011 ,  G06F16/5854 ,  G06T17/00 ,  G06T17/10 ,  G06T2210/61

Abstract: An exemplary scene customization system detects a selection, by a user, of a customization scheme to be applied to an original immersive scene throughout a scene customization session to be experienced by the user by way of an artificial reality device. The system dynamically generates a custom immersive scene based on an application of the selected customization scheme to the original immersive scene by receiving data representative of the original immersive scene, developing a dynamic volumetric model of the original immersive scene based on the received data representative of the original immersive scene, identifying one or more objects included in the original immersive scene, and replacing the one or more objects with one or more custom objects in accordance with the applied customization scheme. The system also presents the custom immersive scene to the user by way of the artificial reality device throughout the scene customization session.

公开(公告)号：US20170289221A1

公开(公告)日：2017-10-05

申请号：US15087843

申请日：2016-03-31

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Mohammad Raheel Khalid ,  Ali Jaafar ,  Dan Sun ,  Christian Egeler ,  Samir S. Vaidya

IPC: H04L29/06 ,  G06T19/00 ,  H04L29/08

CPC classification number: H04L67/38 ,  H04L65/4084 ,  H04L65/602 ,  H04L65/604 ,  H04L65/607

Abstract: An exemplary device renders, within a field of view of an immersive virtual reality world (“world”) presented on a display screen, content of the world based on a stream of a first content file comprising a first content sector of the world encoded in a high resolution and a second content sector encoded in a low resolution. The device detects user input to shift additional content included in the second content sector but not the first content sector into the field of view. In response, the device switches from receiving a stream of the first content file to receiving a stream of a second content file comprising the first content sector encoded in the low resolution and the second content sector encoded in the high resolution. The device then renders the additional content from the second content sector in the high resolution based on the second content file.

公开(公告)号：US20170287220A1

公开(公告)日：2017-10-05

申请号：US15087891

申请日：2016-03-31

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Mohammad Raheel Khalid ,  Ali Jaafar ,  Dan Sun ,  Christian Egeler ,  John Gu ,  Jyotsna Kachroo ,  Danny C. Lui

IPC: G06T19/00 ,  H04N5/232 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/8545 ,  H04N21/2343 ,  H04N21/6405 ,  H04W4/06 ,  G06F3/048

CPC classification number: G06T19/006 ,  G06F3/048 ,  G06T15/20 ,  H04N5/23238 ,  H04N21/234363 ,  H04N21/23439 ,  H04N21/41407 ,  H04N21/4223 ,  H04N21/6131 ,  H04N21/6405 ,  H04N21/8146 ,  H04N21/8545 ,  H04W4/06

Abstract: An exemplary interactive media content provider system generates overall data representative of interactive media content. The exemplary interactive media content provider system concurrently provides the overall data to both a first media player device associated with a first user and a second media player device associated with a second user by way of a point-to-multipoint media delivery protocol. The first media player device and the second media player device may each be configured to render different portions of the overall data to respective display screens of the media player devices at a particular point in time based on different user input from the first user and the second user, respectively, as the first user and the second user independently interact with the interactive media content. Corresponding methods and systems are also described.