Overlay non-video content on a mobile device
View Patent ↗Methods, systems, and devices are described for presenting non-video content through a mobile device that uses a video camera to track a video on another screen. In one embodiment, a system includes a video display, such as a TV, that displays video content. A mobile device with an integrated video camera captures video data from the TV and allows a user to select an area in the video in order to hear/feel/smell what is at that location in the video.
1. A system for augmenting a video, the system comprising:
a video source configured to provide video content to a video display; and
a mobile device with a video camera and display, the mobile device configured to:
capture video data including the video content from the video display using the video camera, the video content from the video display having at least one marker, the at least one marker including at least one time code which identifies a temporal position corresponding to at least a portion of time in the video content;
track the video content in the captured video data;
receive a user selection of a subportion of an image in the captured video data;
access non-video content associated with the subportion of the image and synchronized with the temporal position of the video content using the at least one time code; and
present the accessed non-video content associated with the subportion of the image to a user at substantially the same time as the video content is captured using the video camera.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one marker comprises encoded audio.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one marker comprises an anchored pattern.
4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the mobile device is further configured to identify a size of the video content.
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the mobile device is further configured to identify an orientation of the video content.
6. The system of claim 1 , wherein a type of the non-video content comprises content specified by a user.
7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one marker includes one or more markers each having a different value.
8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the non-video content is pre-loaded onto the mobile device.
9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the non-video content comprises views or angles based on an angle of the mobile device.
10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one marker comprises a digital watermark.
11. A computer-implemented method for augmenting video, the method comprising:
capturing video data including video content from a video display, the video data captured with a video camera operatively coupled to a mobile device, the video content from the video display having at least one marker identifying a temporal position within the video content, the at least one marker including at least one time code which identifies a temporal position corresponding to at least a portion of time in the video content;
tracking the video content in the captured video data;
receiving a user selection of a subportion of an image in the captured video data;
accessing non-video content associated with the subportion of the image and synchronized with the temporal position of the video content using the at least one time code; and
presenting the accessed non-video content associated with the subportion of the image to a user at substantially the same time as the video content is captured using the video camera.
12. The computer-implemented method of claim 11 , wherein the at least one marker comprises encoded audio.
13. The computer-implemented method of claim 11 , wherein the at least one marker comprises an anchored encoded image.
14. The computer-implemented method of claim 11 , wherein the mobile device is further configured to identify a size of the video content.
15. The computer-implemented method of claim 11 , wherein the mobile device is further configured to identify an orientation of the video content.
16. The computer-implemented method of claim 11 , wherein a type of the non-video content comprises content specified by a user.
17. The computer-implemented method of claim 11 , wherein the at least one marker includes one or more markers each having a different value.
18. The computer-implemented method of claim 11 , wherein the non-video content is pre-loaded onto the mobile device.
19. The computer-implemented method of claim 11 , wherein the non-video content comprises views or angles based on an angle of the mobile device.
20. The computer-implemented method of claim 11 , wherein the non-video content includes at least one of text, animations, graphic enhancements, advertisements, and hyperlinks.