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US 11,695,488 B2Granted
ATSC over-the-air (OTA) broadcast of public volumetric augmented reality (AR)
AssigneeSony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
InventorsJeffrey R. Stafford, Todd Tokubo
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Abstract
Techniques are described for using the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol to deliver volumetric information for presentation on various displays using ATSC over-the-air communications channels.
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A digital television transmitter assembly comprising:
- at least one processor programmed with instructions to:
- send, via over-the-air (OTA) transmission, to at least one display augmented reality (AR) information comprising AR images to be presented on the display, the AR information comprising at least one computer game with 3D volume of width, height, and depth information describing respective 3D regions and along with the AR information side-band data for providing an initial seeding for the AR information, volumetric data in the AR information being view-independent but including information that allows a process to extract explicit views, view-independence of the volumetric data enabling plural receivers receiving a same volumetric data with each receiver individually rendering a specific view of the volumetric data differently than other receivers receiving the volumetric data.
A digital television receiver assembly comprising:
- at least one display for presenting augmented reality (AR) images received from a digital television broadcast;
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- at least one processor configured with instructions for:
- controlling the display to present the AR images;
- and
- present on the display, along with the AR images, images from a non-Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) source, wherein the AR images comprise:
- a computer game with volumetric data, presenting the AR images comprising:
- a first phase comprising receiving, before the volumetric data is displayed, a base dataset before changes are applied, the first phase providing seed data containing static elements of the volumetric data;
- a second phase comprising receiving temporal data representing changes to the seed data;
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- a third phase comprising receiving frame-to-frame data comprising changes from one frame of changing content to a next frame, presenting the AR images comprising presenting the seed data received in the first phase as modified by data received in the second and third phases.
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A system comprising:
- at least one Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) over-the-air broadcast assembly configured to broadcast augmented reality (AR) volumetric content;
- at least one ATSC receiver assembly comprising at least one ATSC receiver configured to receive the AR volumetric content from the broadcast assembly and at least one non-ATSC communication interface configured to receive non-ATSC content and present in one image on at least one display both the AR volumetric content from the broadcast assembly and the non-ATSC content, wherein the AR volumetric content comprises:
- a computer simulation, the AR volumetric content being received in a first phase and at least a second phase, the first phase comprising reception of static seed data and being received before the second phase, the second phase comprising reception of changes to the static seed data, wherein plural receivers receive a same AR volumetric content in the first phase with each receiver individually rendering a specific view of the volumetric data differently than other receivers based on data received in the second phase.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.