Systems and methods for accessing augmented reality (AR) content, including dynamic AR content, relatively quickly, and relatively easily, are provided. An enabled target entity may be identified within a camera view of a mobile computing device, and a server computing device may identify the target entity, match the target entity with dynamic AR content, and transmit the dynamic AR content to the client computing device. This may allow users to consume content-rich information and/or to experience real time interaction with the images and objects in their surroundings, that would otherwise be difficult and/or unrealistic to condense into physical media, and/or that would be otherwise difficult and/or unrealistic to provide in a real time, interactive experience.

There is provided an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program that enable display of an advertisement in an appropriate region within a captured image. The image processing apparatus sets, on the basis of density of people in a predetermined region within a captured image, an advertisement display region for superimposition of an advertisement image on the captured image. The present technology is applicable to a television (TV) broadcast system.

The embodiments relate to a method comprising receiving as an input a volumetric video frame comprising volumetric video data (910); decomposing the volumetric video frame into one or more patches, wherein a patch comprises a volumetric video data component (920); packing several patches, where at least two patches of the several patches comprise a different volumetric video data component with respect to each other, into one video frame (930); generating a bitstream comprising an encoded video frame (940); signaling, in or along the bitstream, existence of encoded video frame containing patches of more than one different volumetric video data component (950); and transmitting the encoded bitstream to a storage for rendering (960). The embodiments also relate to a technical equipment for implementing the method.

A method, system and product for compressing a video frame. The method comprising: obtaining a video frame that comprises at least a first area of interest; determining at least the first area of interest based on a portion of an object displayed therein; determining at least a portion of the frame based on at least the first areas of interest; determining at least a first processing channel based on at least the first areas of interest, wherein first processing channel comprises at least a first actions, wherein the first processing action is associated with at least one processing action parameters; and processing at least the first portion by utilizing at least the first processing channels, whereby an alternative video frame can be constructed based on at least a first processed portions of the video frame.

Systems and methods for performing trick play functionality using trick play streams during adaptive bitrate streaming in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. One embodiment includes requesting a video container index from a video container file containing a video stream from a plurality of alternative streams of video; requesting at least one portion of the video stream using at least one entry from the video container index; decoding the at least one portion of the video stream; receiving at least one user instruction to perform a visual search of the media; requesting a trick play container index from a trick play container file containing a trick play stream; requesting at least one frame of video from the at least one trick play stream; and decoding and displaying the at least one frame of video from the trick play stream.

The disclosed computer-implemented method may include receiving, as an input, segmented video scenes, where each video scene includes a specified length of video content. The method may further include scanning the video scenes to identify objects within the video scene and also determining a relative importance value for the identified objects. The relative importance value may include an indication of which objects are to be included in a cropped version of the video scene. The method may also include generating a video crop that is to be applied to the video scene such that the resulting cropped version of the video scene includes those identified objects that are to be included based on the relative importance value. The method may also include applying the generated video crop to the video scene to produce the cropped version of the video scene. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Embodiments for video encoding and video decoding are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between a video and a bitstream of the video, wherein the bitstream includes one or more pictures including one or more subpictures according to a rule, and wherein the rule specifies that, responsive to a condition, a rewriting operation is performed on referenced one or more sequence parameter sets during a subpicture sub-bitstream extraction process by which a target output sub-bitstream is extracted from the bitstream.

Systems and methods are provided for generating a viewport for display. A user preference for a character and/or a genre of a scene in a spherical media content item is determined, wherein the spherical media content item comprises a plurality of tiles. A tile of the plurality of tiles is identified based on the determined user preference. A viewport to be generated for display at a computing device is predicted, based on the identified tile. A first tile to be transmitted to a computing device at a first resolution is identified, based on the predicted viewport to be generated for display. The tile is transmitted, to the computing device, at the first resolution.

The embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a server device for handling media data streams. The sever device obtains multiple streams of source media data of varying resolution each having multiple source frames. Each source frame is divided into a plurality of tiles. The server device selects a subset of tiles from least one of the streams of source media data. The selected subset of tiles is comprised in an output frame. The server device determines layout information for the selected subset of tiles in the output frame. The layout information comprises scale, source tile index and output tile index.

A compression coding section compression-codes an image formed by an image forming section of a server in units of a partial image smaller than one frame, and transmits the compression-coded image to an image processing apparatus via a communication section together with its formation time. An image data acquisition section of the image processing apparatus acquires the transmitted image data, and a decoding decompression section decoding-decompresses the image data for each partial image. An image processing section performs necessary processing for each of the partial images. A display control section outputs data of the partial images to a display device while changing an output target or controlling an output order according to an acquisition status of the data of the partial images.