Patent ID: 9251603
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: A63F,G03B,G06T,G11B,H01R,H04N,H05K

Claim Text:
1. A method for integrating panoramic video with a video game comprising: receiving, via a computing device comprising hardware and software, a panoramic video captured by a camera of a moving vehicle of a real world event, wherein the video comprises of perspective data linked with a video timeline; determining, via the computing device, a perspective view associated with a game vehicle of a graphics of a video game linked with a game timeline at a first time index, wherein the graphics includes an interactive graphics object for the game vehicle controlled by a user of the video game in which the game vehicle moves in a game environment per user input, wherein the graphics interactively shows the game vehicle in a third person perspective; processing, via the computing device, the perspective data of the panoramic video to obtain a video sequence, from the panoramic video matching the perspective view associated with the graphics at a second time index, wherein the video sequence shows an interior of the moving vehicle in addition to showing at least one occupant of the moving vehicle; synchronizing the video timeline and the game timeline based on a common time index of each of the timelines; and integrating the graphics and the video sequence into an interactive content, responsive to the synchronizing, such that motion of the moving vehicle from the video sequence is synchronized to match motion of the game vehicle as controlled by the user, wherein the graphics showing the game vehicle in third person perspective and the video segment are concurrently included for presentation within a user interface of the video game responsive to the integrating step.