Method for the contextual composition of an intermediate video representation

A device comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon, which when executed by the processor configure the device to perform acts comprising:
• composing an intermediate representation of a video sequence from at least two different representations of quality of said video sequence, said at least two representations being spatially partitioned into a plurality of tiles, each tile being associated with compressed data in said representation, and wherein the tiles can be decoded independently of one another and, at a given instant, the different representations are partitioned identically, wherein composing comprises:
• obtaining a context datum representative of activity of at least one viewer situated in proximity to playback device, the context datum comprising an indication relating to a location on an image of the video sequence, the location corresponding to a zone of a screen of the playback device observed by the at least one viewer,
• selecting, according to the context datum obtained and at least one criterion of maximum bit rate of the intermediate representation resulting from the composition, a set of tiles forming a partition of the sequence, from the at least two representations, and wherein the selecting comprises selecting at least one tile in a first of the at least two representations having a higher quality for a part of the image corresponding to the indicated location and selecting at least one tile in a second of the at least two representations having a lower quality for a part of the image outside the indicated location, and
• composing an intermediate representation of the video sequence from the compressed data associated with the selected set of tiles so that the intermediate representation has a quality between that of the first representation and the second representation.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon, which when executed by a processor of a composing device configure the composing device to perform acts comprising:

• composing an intermediate representation of a video sequence from at least two different representations of quality of said video sequence, said at least two representations being spatially partitioned into a plurality of tiles, each tile being associated with compressed data in said representation, and wherein the tiles can be decoded independently of one another and, at a given instant, the different representations are partitioned identically, wherein composing comprises:
• obtaining a context datum representative of activity of at least one viewer situated in proximity to playback device, the context datum comprising an indication relating to a location on an image of the video sequence, the location corresponding to a zone of a screen of the playback device observed by the at least one viewer,
• selecting, according to the context datum obtained and at least one criterion of maximum bit rate of the intermediate representation resulting from the composition, a set of tiles forming a partition of the sequence, from the at least two representations, and wherein the selecting comprises selecting at least one tile in a first of the at least two representations having a higher quality for a part of the image corresponding to the indicated location and selecting at least one tile in a second of the at least two representations having a lower quality for a part of the image outside the indicated location, and
• composing an intermediate representation of the video sequence from the compressed data associated with the selected set of tiles so that the intermediate representation has a quality between that of the first representation and the second representation.