Patent ID: 8867886

Claim:
A surround video system comprising: a client device configured to receive, simultaneously or consecutively, live or prerecorded, image data streams collected by at least one Image Acquisition Device (IAD), from a plurality of viewing angles of a scene or retakes of a scene; and a user control device coupled with the client device and configured to generate a signal usable to change the user's viewing angle of the scene from a current viewing angle to a selected one of the plurality of viewing angles, each of the plurality of viewing angles corresponding to one of the image data streams obtained from a different IAD, wherein the change of the user's viewing angle comprises a visually smooth transition by automatically transitioning from the current viewing angle to at least one intermediate viewing angle, obtained from an IAD, between the current and the selected one of the plurality of viewing angles, and then transitioning to the selected one of the plurality of viewing angles.