Surround Video is a technology that aims to do for video that which 5.1 surround sound has done for audio: create a richer and more immersive experience for the viewer. The inspiration for the project is the awareness that human peripheral vision provides information to the observer about movement and scene context.
We have developed and patented a prototype Surround Video system that displays a very wide-angle image around a standard television.
The television screen displays the normal programme, while the material displayed in the ‘Surround’ can either be video that was captured using a wide-angle camera at the same time that the normal video was captured, or synthetic material that is generated automatically by processing the the central video. Such synthetic material may display the ambient colours of the scene, motion cues derived from the original material or any other sort of visual information that improves the viewing experience.
Normal viewing area.
Same viewing area as above, but with Surround Video.
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