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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2021
Filed:
May. 17, 2018
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Anthony William Godar, London, GB;
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A video providing device for providing video content having a plurality of viewpoints, the device includes: a video storage unit operable to store a plurality of versions of a video for each of a plurality of the viewpoints in the video content, the videos being encoded such that each video includes a region of high resolution corresponding to that viewpoint, where a plurality of the videos each include the same region of high resolution, and each video having the same region of high resolution is encoded with a temporal offset of the group of pictures relative to those other videos with the same region of high resolution, the group of pictures offsets defining video switching times for each video, a viewpoint determining unit operable to determine a requested viewpoint in the video content, a timing identification unit operable to identify a next suitable video switching time from amongst the plurality of video switching times, a video selection unit operable to select a video with a high resolution region corresponding to the requested viewpoint and the identified video switching time, and a video transmitting unit operable to transmit the selected video to a video receiving device.