A multi-window user interface (UI) is presented in various configurations and operational uses to leverage the relatively large display canvas afforded by large screen display devices such as 4K or 8K displays. Along with the various Multiview aspects, content delivery techniques, content selection techniques, and level of service techniques also are presented.

A multi-window user interface (UI) is presented in various configurations and operational uses to leverage the relatively large display canvas afforded by large screen display devices such as 4K or 8K displays. Along with the various Multiview aspects, content delivery techniques, content selection techniques, and level of service techniques also are presented.

Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for viewport selection for hypervideo presentation. In a method for viewport selection for hypervideo presentation, a multiplicity of different hypervideos, for example 360 hypervideos, are played back to an end user and end user interactions by the end user with each of the different hypervideos are recorded. Then, an end user profile for the end user is computed from the recorded end user interactions so as to specify a particular viewport. Finally, in response to a directive by the end user to view a new hypervideo, the end user profile is retrieved and the particular viewport identified so that the new hypervideo is played back to the end user utilizing the particular viewport.

Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for viewport selection for hypervideo presentation. In a method for viewport selection for hypervideo presentation, a multiplicity of different hypervideos, for example 360 hypervideos, are played back to an end user and end user interactions by the end user with each of the different hypervideos are recorded. Then, an end user profile for the end user is computed from the recorded end user interactions so as to specify a particular viewport. Finally, in response to a directive by the end user to view a new hypervideo, the end user profile is retrieved and the particular viewport identified so that the new hypervideo is played back to the end user utilizing the particular viewport.

A user terminal apparatus is provided. The user terminal apparatus includes a communication interface unit which receives user interface (UI) information data regarding a UI screen corresponding to at least one application displayed on an external apparatus in communication with the external apparatus, a storage unit which stores a UI information conversion format, an information conversion unit which converts the received UI information data using the UI information conversion format, a display unit which displays a UI screen, and a control unit which controls the information conversion unit to convert the UI information data received by the communication interface unit using the UI information conversion format and display on the display unit the UI screen corresponding to the converted UI information data.

A user terminal apparatus is provided. The user terminal apparatus includes a communication interface unit which receives user interface (UI) information data regarding a UI screen corresponding to at least one application displayed on an external apparatus in communication with the external apparatus, a storage unit which stores a UI information conversion format, an information conversion unit which converts the received UI information data using the UI information conversion format, a display unit which displays a UI screen, and a control unit which controls the information conversion unit to convert the UI information data received by the communication interface unit using the UI information conversion format and display on the display unit the UI screen corresponding to the converted UI information data.

To summarize an input image, an image summarization system extracts a background frame and object information of each of objects from an image stream, and receives a region of interest set in a predetermined region of the background frame. The image summarization system selects the extracted objects as queue objects, and generates a summarized video based on the queue object, the background frame, and the region of interest.

Viewing policies are received for a media program being offered via linear programming. The viewing policies are transformed to a linear prioritized list of audiences and respective actions to perform on a per user basis for presentation via the live linear programming. The actions analyzed to determine a base action associated with sending a base content stream for the media program. An audience associated with the base content stream and previous audiences associated with previous actions that have a higher priority in the linear prioritized list than the content stream audience are selected. An audience definition for the media program is generated defining restrictions based on the base audience and the previous audiences. The audience definition is used to determine whether users may view the media program based on characteristics of the users before the media program is available via the live linear programming.

A receiving device includes a receiving unit configured to receive a segment file constituting a stream of content, a reproducing unit configured to acquire and reproduce the received segment file, and a proxy server unit configured to generate supply availability information including a probability at which the segment file can be supplied to the reproducing unit, in which the proxy server unit generates the supply availability information in response to a request for the segment file from the reproducing unit and supplies the segment file received by the receiving unit to the reproducing unit, and the reproducing unit requests the proxy server unit to transmit a segment file to be reproduced next on the basis of the generated supply availability information. The device can be applied to stream delivery systems.

A simplified HTML based video advertisement delivery which can be employed by receivers using existing data protocols such as simple HTML text tracks is disclosed. Text tracks are used as a trigger to launch interactive video advertisements, then advertisement delivery is managed with reduced system load. This ameliorates the load time problem and can also be used to allow the user to interact with the advertisement for an extended time.