US 10,951,923 B2Granted

Method and apparatus for provisioning secondary content based on primary content

AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.

InventorsBo Han, Sassan Pejhan, Vijay Gopalakrishnan

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Abstract

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a region of interest included in a plurality of candidate regions of interest associated with a presentation of a first content item on a user equipment, wherein the first content item includes a panoramic video, comparing first metadata associated with the region of interest to a plurality of metadata associated with a plurality of secondary content items, responsive to the comparing, identifying a second content item included in the plurality of secondary content items, wherein the identifying of the second content item is based on a distance between the first metadata and second metadata associated with the second content item being less than a threshold, and transmitting the second content item to the user equipment responsive to the identifying of the second content item. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A device, comprising:

a processing system including a processor;
and
a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
presenting a first content item, wherein the first content item includes a panoramic video;
obtaining a viewing direction with respect to the first content item during a playback of the first content item at the device;
identifying a region of interest in the first content item responsive to obtaining the viewing direction;
transmitting an identification of the region of interest to a server for analysis by the server of the region of interest relative to a plurality of secondary content items;
transmitting to the server a timestamp associated with the playback of the first content item at the device, wherein a first time associated with the timestamp coincides with a second time when the viewing direction is obtained;
and
receiving, from the server, a secondary content item included in the plurality of secondary content items,
wherein a first difference between first metadata associated with the region of interest and second metadata associated with the secondary content item is less than a plurality of other differences, and
wherein the plurality of other differences is based on respective differences between the first metadata and other metadata associated with other secondary content items included in the plurality of secondary content items.

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A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:

presenting a first content item, wherein the first content item includes a video;
identifying a region of interest in the first content item in accordance with a viewing direction;
transmitting an identification of the region of interest;
transmitting a timestamp associated with a playback of the first content item, wherein a first time associated with the timestamp coincides with a second time when the viewing direction is obtained;
and
receiving a secondary content item included in a plurality of secondary content items responsive to the transmitting of the identification of the region of interest,
wherein a first difference between first metadata associated with the region of interest and second metadata associated with the secondary content item is less than a plurality of other differences, and
wherein the plurality of other differences is based on respective differences between the first metadata and other metadata associated with other secondary content items included in the plurality of secondary content items.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/106,448Filed 21 Aug 2018
Published: US 2020/0068227 A127 Feb 2020
Granted: 16 Mar 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

H04N 21/21805
Source of audio or video content , e.g. local disk arrays: enabling multiple viewpoints, e.g. using a plurality of cameras
H04N 21/23424
Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing of video streams or manipulating encoded video stream scene graphs: involving splicing one…
H04N 21/235
Processing of content or additional data; Elementary server operations; Server middleware: processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of…
H04N 21/25891
Management of end-user data: being end-user preferences