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公开(公告)号:US11582383B2
公开(公告)日:2023-02-14
申请号:US16760883
申请日:2018-11-09
申请人: Koninklijke KPN N.V. , Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO
摘要: A method and processor system are provided which analyze a depth map, which may be obtained from a range sensor capturing depth information of a scene, to identify where an object is located in the scene. Accordingly, a region of interest may be identified in the scene which includes the object, and image data may be selectively obtained of the region of interest, rather than of the entire scene containing the object. This image data may be acquired by an image sensor configured for capturing visible light information of the scene. By only selectively obtaining the image data within the region of interest, rather than all of the image data, improvements may be realized in the computational complexity of a possible further processing of the image data, the storage of the image data and/or the transmission of the image data.
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公开(公告)号:US11317135B2
公开(公告)日:2022-04-26
申请号:US16472796
申请日:2017-12-21
申请人: Koninklijke KPN N.V. , Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO
IPC分类号: H04N21/2665 , H04N21/258 , H04N21/2743 , H04N21/435 , H04N21/8545 , H04N21/45
摘要: A method of determining a group of user devices suitable for contributing user content to an interactive media broadcast may comprise: —transmitting a set of requirements to a first plurality of user devices (13), each user device having a set of capabilities, the set of requirements relating to using at least part of the user content in the interactive media broadcast, —transmitting an invitation to a second plurality of user devices (13), the invitation being configured to cause a user device to produce a conditional response if the set of capabilities of the user device matches the set of requirements, and —identifying a group of user devices from which a conditional response was received. The method may further comprise selecting a group of user devices from the identified user devices. The selected group of user devices may include all identified user devices. The media broadcast may include an interactive television broadcast.
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公开(公告)号:US11119719B2
公开(公告)日:2021-09-14
申请号:US16624255
申请日:2018-06-29
申请人: Koninklijke KPN N.V. , Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO
IPC分类号: G06F3/14 , G06F3/0481 , G06T3/40
摘要: Systems and methods for screen sharing are provided. The screen sharing may comprise providing image data from a sender system to a receiver system. The receiver system may be a Virtual Reality [VR] system configured to render the image data in a virtual environment by projecting the image data onto a virtual canvas. At the sender system, visual content may be identified to share with the receiver system. The rendering or display of the virtual environment by the receiver may impose legibility constraints on the visual content. An adjusted version of the visual content may be generated which provides improved legibility when viewed in the virtual environment. The image data representing the adjusted version may then be provided to the receiver system. Accordingly, the legibility of the visual content shared by the sender system may be improved when rendered, displayed and subsequently viewed by a user in the virtual environment.
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公开(公告)号:US20190172252A1
公开(公告)日:2019-06-06
申请号:US16204024
申请日:2018-11-29
申请人: Koninklijke KPN N.V. , Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO
发明人: Hans Maarten Stokking , Simon Norbert Bernhard Gunkel , Martin Prins , Hendrikus Nathaniel Hindriks
摘要: Some embodiments involve obtaining access to a number of omnidirectional images which each represent a different viewpoint relative to the scene, and to metadata which is indicative of a physical relation between the respective viewpoint and a physical object present in the scene. Viewer data may be obtained which is indicative of a current physical relation between a viewpoint of the user and a same type of physical object in a current viewing environment of the user. An omnidirectional image may then be selected for display by comparing the viewer data to the metadata of the omnidirectional images.In other embodiments, an omnidirectional image may have been selected, e.g., from a number of omnidirectional images or by being the only available image, and the user may be instructed to assume a viewpoint in which the physical relation to the physical object in the user's current viewing environment corresponds to the physical relation as indicated by the selected image's metadata.
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公开(公告)号:US20180091860A1
公开(公告)日:2018-03-29
申请号:US15567363
申请日:2016-04-22
申请人: Koninklijke KPN N.V. , Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO
IPC分类号: H04N21/4728 , H04N5/272
CPC分类号: H04N21/4728 , H04N5/272
摘要: A system and method are provided for enhancing a media recording which comprises a camera recording of a scene, with the scene including a screen displaying visual content. In the camera recording, the visual content as displayed on the screen is typically of poor quality. By analysing the camera recording, accessing an original version of the visual content, and replacing, in the camera recording, the visual content displayed on the screen by the original version of the visual content, an enhanced media recording is obtained. Namely, in the enhanced media recording, a ‘digital-to-light-to-digital’ conversion of the visual content is avoided, being at least one reason for the visual content having a poor quality in the camera recording.
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公开(公告)号:US20200382747A1
公开(公告)日:2020-12-03
申请号:US16955019
申请日:2018-12-19
申请人: Koninklijke KPN N.V. , Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO
发明人: Martin Prins , Hans Maarten Stokking , Simon Norbert Bernhard Gunkel , Hendrikus Nathaniël Hindriks
摘要: Systems and methods are provided for generating and rendering an enhanced audiovisual recording of a user, which may be used for multiuser communication, e.g., in Virtual Reality. Such an enhanced recording may be generated by determining a face orientation of the user in the audiovisual recording, and generating orientation data specifying an orientation which represents said determined face orientation. During rendering, the audio data may be rendered based on the orientation data, namely by rendering the audio data as a spatial audio source having a spatial direction which is congruent with the face orientation of the user in a visual representation of the user. Accordingly, the spatial direction of the voice of the user may better match the user's face direction in the user's visual representation.
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公开(公告)号:US11082662B2
公开(公告)日:2021-08-03
申请号:US16955019
申请日:2018-12-19
申请人: Koninklijke KPN N.V. , Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO
发明人: Martin Prins , Hans Maarten Stokking , Simon Norbert Bernhard Gunkel , Hendrikus Nathaniël Hindriks
摘要: Systems and methods are provided for generating and rendering an enhanced audiovisual recording of a user, which may be used for multiuser communication, e.g., in Virtual Reality. Such an enhanced recording may be generated by determining a face orientation of the user in the audiovisual recording, and generating orientation data specifying an orientation which represents said determined face orientation. During rendering, the audio data may be rendered based on the orientation data, namely by rendering the audio data as a spatial audio source having a spatial direction which is congruent with the face orientation of the user in a visual representation of the user. Accordingly, the spatial direction of the voice of the user may better match the user's face direction in the user's visual representation.
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公开(公告)号:US20190045119A1
公开(公告)日:2019-02-07
申请号:US16061320
申请日:2016-12-16
申请人: Koninklijke KPN N.V. , Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast- Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Tno
摘要: A system and method are provided for generating an output video, such as a video panorama, from a plurality of video streams representing different recordings of a scene. The plurality of video streams may be analyzed to identify at least one part of at least one of the plurality of video streams which is to be used in the output video, thereby identifying a contributing part of a video stream. Orchestration metadata may be generated identifying the contributing part. The orchestration metadata may be provided to a stream source from which the video stream originated to enable the stream source to selectively stream the contributing part of the video stream. Effectively, a selection of the stream's video data may be made to avoid or reduce unnecessary bandwidth usage.
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公开(公告)号:US20170310731A1
公开(公告)日:2017-10-26
申请号:US15517092
申请日:2015-10-13
申请人: Koninklijke KPN N.V. , NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST- NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO
IPC分类号: H04L29/06
CPC分类号: H04L65/608 , H04L65/1083 , H04L65/80
摘要: A system and method are provided for managing a concurrent streaming of a first media stream (031) and a second media stream (032). The media streams (031, 032) represent different recordings of an event. The concurrent streaming of the media streams (031, 032) is enabled by a resource having a resource limitation (080). To address this resource limitation, when it is determined that the resource limitation is exceeded by the concurrent streaming of the first media stream (031) streaming to a first streaming client (041) and the second media stream (032) streaming to a second streaming client (042), the first media stream (031) is selected for substituting the second media stream (032) in the streaming to the second streaming client (042). As a result of the substitution, the first and the second streaming client (041, 042) stream the same media stream rather than different media streams. This may have as advantage that the allocation of the resource is reduced, since the streaming of a same media stream to different streaming clients (041, 042) typically represents a lower resource allocation than the streaming of different media streams to different streaming clients.
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公开(公告)号:US20170188170A1
公开(公告)日:2017-06-29
申请号:US15385449
申请日:2016-12-20
申请人: Koninklijke KPN N.V. , Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO
CPC分类号: H04S7/302 , H04R5/02 , H04R5/04 , H04R27/00 , H04R2227/005 , H04R2420/07 , H04S3/008 , H04S7/303 , H04S2400/13 , H04S2420/11
摘要: In an embodiment, an audio system may include a first set of speakers arranged in a first area, a second set of speakers arranged in a second area, an audio source for supplying sound signals to the speakers, and at least one detector for detecting the location of a user and for supplying a location signal to the audio source. The first area and the second area may be substantially non-overlapping. The audio source may be configured for controlling the sound signals to the speakers so as to produce a sound field having a position. The audio source may further be configured for adjusting, in response to the at least one location signal, the position of the sound field when a user moves from the first area to the second area. As a result, the position of the sound field may substantially coincide with the location of the user.
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