Mapping past content from providers in video content sharing community
AssigneeWormhole Labs, Inc.
InventorCurt Hutten
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Abstract
A method of sharing an experience between a tapper and a content provider is provided. In this method, at least two interfaces are provided that are configured to allow the tapper and the content provider to join a content sharing community. A third interface is also provided to allow the tapper to select the content provider from a map where at least one of the tapper and the content provider are unknown to the other prior to the tapper selecting the content provider. Then a solicitation is conveyed from the tapper to the content provider to provide a video feed. The method further provides a control that operates the map at selected historical times.
Claims5
A method of sharing an experience between a tapper and a content provider, comprising:
- providing at least first and second interfaces, configured to allow the tapper and the content provider to join a content sharing community;
- providing at least a third interface configured to allow the tapper to select the content provider from a map that displays representations of members of the content sharing community;
- conveying a solicitation from the tapper to the content provider to provide a video feed;
- conveying the video feed to the tapper, derived from a device operated or carried by the content provider, wherein the video feed comprises a near-real time, first-person experience of a physical environment of the content provider;
- receiving a three-dimensional model of the physical environment of the content provider;
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- receiving from the tapper a designation of a time frame for an event associated with the physical environment of the content provider,
- including in the video feed an image derived from a focal point during the time frame,
- wherein the focal point designates a perspective of a camera capturing the event to be displayed to the tapper, and
- wherein one or more focal points are rendered at least partially using the three-dimensional model the physical environment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.