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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2017
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuaki Yamagishi, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuhiko Takabayashi, Tokyo, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A distribution device includes a segment filing unit configured to make a video stream of each of areas obtained by imaging an imaging range divided into plural of the areas into a segment file, a distribution unit configured to supply the segment file of the video stream of each of the areas to a reception side by at least one of net distribution or broadcast distribution, and a notification unit configured to notify, in a case an ROI including one or more of the areas is set to the imaging range, the reception side of an ROI identifier for identifying the belonging ROI as attribute information related to the segment file corresponding to the area included in the ROI. The device can be applied to streaming distribution using DASH and enables signaling of an ROI identifier of a video distributed by at least one of broadcast distribution or net distribution.