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US 11,818,414 B2Granted
Telepresence through OTA VR broadcast streams
AssigneeSony Group Corporation
InventorsBrant Candelore, Adam Goldberg, Fred Ansfield, Graham Clift, Loren Pineda
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Abstract
Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. Telepresence is provided through over-the-air (OTA) virtual reality (VR) broadcast streams.
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In digital television in which at least one receiver can receive broadcast signals, a method, comprising:
- receiving at least a first broadcast video signal;
- presenting content in the first broadcast video signal on at least one flat display;
- and
- presenting 180°/360° video of the content on at least one display, wherein the content presented on the at least one flat display is from at least one flat video camera and the 180°/360° video is from at least one 180°/360° camera and the flat video content and 180°/360° video are sent, to the receiver, via over-the-air (OTA) broadcast in at least one physical layer pipe (PLP) accompanied by signaling that both flat video content and 180°/360° video are available.
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An apparatus comprising:
- at least one receiver assembly configured to:
- receive at least a first broadcast video signal;
- present flat video content in the first broadcast video signal on at least one flat display;
- present 180°/360° video of the content on at least one display, wherein the flat video content is from at least one flat video camera and the 180°/360° video is from at least one 180°/360° camera and the flat video content and 180°/360° video are sent, to the receiver assembly, via over-the-air (OTA) broadcast in at least one physical layer pipe (PLP) accompanied by signaling that both the flat video content and the 180°/360° video are available, identifying each.
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A digital television apparatus comprising:
- at least one receiver comprising at least one processor programmed with instructions to configure the processor to:
- present a flat video of an event on a main display;
- and
- present a one hundred eighty or three hundred sixty-degree (180° or 360°) video of the event on a virtual reality (VR) headset, wherein the flat video is from at least one flat video camera and the 180° or 360° video is from at least one 180°/360° camera and the flat video content and 180° or 360° video are sent to the receiver via over-the-air (OTA) broadcast in at least one physical layer pipe (PLP) accompanied by signaling that both the flat video content and the 180° or 360° video are available.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.