Tile scheduler for viewport-adaptive panoramic video streaming [patent]
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Publication date

September 15, 2020

Inventors

Bo Han, Peshala Pahalawatta, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Feng Qian (assistant professor)

Abstract

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including obtaining media content and a ranking for each tile of the media content based on a plurality of viewports; receiving a request from user equipment to view the media content; obtaining, iteratively, a plurality for predicted fields of view of the user, the predicted fields of view each covering different future time periods; identifying viewports corresponding to the predicted fields of view; sending any remaining tiles corresponding to the closest in time predicted field of view to the user equipment; and sending remaining tiles corresponding to successive predicted fields of view to the user equipment the ranking based and an excess bandwidth. Other embodiments are disclosed.

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Tile scheduler for viewport-adaptive panoramic video streaming

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