SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ALLOWING INTERACTIVE BROADCAST STREAMED VIDEO FROM DYNAMIC CONTENT

Number: 20200298113
Published: 2020-09-24
Filed: 2019-03-22
Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
Inventors: Smithers; Andi
CPC: A63F13/497; A63F13/5252; A63F13/5255; A63F13/86; G06T19/20; G06T3/16; H04N21/2187; H04N21/234345; H04N21/2365; H04N21/4312; H04N21/4781; H04N21/816; H04N21/8456
Verdict: Set aside interactive broadcast streaming, media delivery plumbing
Source: Google Patents · FreePatentsOnline

Abstract

Some implementations of the disclosure are directed to allowing interactive broadcast streamed video from games and other dynamic content. In accordance with some implementations, a content creator may publish a plurality of video surfaces of an environment for streaming to a plurality of client devices for video playback. The plurality of video surfaces may correspond, for example, to a cube map of a gaming environment captured from the perspective of a player. Upon receiving a stream including multiple video surfaces such as a cubemap, a media player of a viewer may generate a fully-rendered three-dimensional view of the environment.

Background

DESCRIPTION OF THE RELATED ART

In recent years, there has been a proliferation of streaming services that livestream video content from a publisher to many viewers. One space where livestreaming of video content has become especially popular is the esports industry where gamers livestream their video game sessions to many thousands or even millions of viewers. In some present implementations of a livestream, video of the gamer (e.g., the gamer's face) is captured and overlaid over the video output of the video game environment displayed to the video game player during a video game session. The video output of the video game environment may be displayed by rendering scene objects into multiple textures and then generating a final view that is displayed to the gamer by applying the rendered textures to the main scene. This composite video is then streamed to viewers.

Although video game livestreaming services allow for some limited level of interaction with other viewers (e.g., through a chat room) while viewing the livestream composite video, a viewer may feel a lack of interaction because the user may only “look” at the composite video of the stream. For example, as the viewer is limited to looking at the same view of the video game environment as the player, the viewer may be unable to view items, objects, or characters that are just off camera or behind the player that the viewer may be aware of when looking at a streaming broadcast. As such, it would be advanta

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium having executable instructions stored thereon, that when executed by a processor, cause a system to: receive over a communication network, from a server, a video stream including a plurality of video surfaces of an environment; render, at a video player, a view of the video stream using one or more of the received plurality of video surfaces. 10. A non-transitory computer readable medium having executable instructions stored thereon, that when executed by a processor, cause a system to: create a plurality of video surfaces by simultaneously capturing each of a plurality of videos of a scene from a respective viewpoint, wherein each of the plurality of rendered videos corresponds to a video surface; encode a video stream comprising the plurality of video surfaces; and livestream the encoded video stream to a content distribution system that makes the video stream available over a communication network, wherein the encoded video stream is configured such that it is capable of being rendered by a client device to render a view of the video stream using one or more of the plurality of video surfaces. 16. A method, comprising: receiving over a communication network a video stream of a plurality of video surfaces of an environment from a content publisher; preparing the plurality of video surfaces for streaming to a plurality of client devices; and after preparing the plurality of video surfaces, streaming over a communication network the plurality of video surfaces to the plurality of client devices.