Patent ID: 8687042

Claim:
Set top box circuitry supporting media delivery between one or more media content sources and a screen assembly, the screen assembly being part of a viewing environment having a viewing limitation, the set top box circuitry comprising: one or more media interfaces, each of the one or more media interfaces suitable for connection to at least one of the one or more media content sources; a display device interface suitable for connection to the screen assembly; a first of the one or more media interfaces being operable to receive first media content from a first of the one or more media content sources, the first media content having at least a first display requirement, the first media content being first three-dimensional media content; and processing circuitry operable to process the first media content in a manner that is based at least in part upon information related to the viewing limitation to yield second media content having at least a second display requirement, the second display requirement being within the viewing limitation, the information related to the viewing limitation comprising one or more of: a current viewing mode of the screen assembly, a current location and/or head orientation of a viewer of the screen assembly, a characteristic of a media content source from which the first media content is received, the media content source being an entity configured to transfer media content to the set top box circuitry, a characteristic of a channel over which the first media content is received from the media content source, and a characteristic of a channel over which the first media content is delivered to the screen assembly.