Multi-view audio and video interactive playback

• Main Authors: INGUVA, Isasi, DOIG, Jeremy, DENMAN, Hugh, BIRKBECK, Neil, KELLY, Damien, CRAWFORD, Andrew, BENTING, Steve, KOKARAM, Anil, TOBIN, Perry
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 26.10.2023
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

MULTI-VIEW AUDIO AND VIDEO INTERACTIVE PLAYBACK A method comprising: identifying, by a processing device, a plurality of media items comprising at least an audio portion, the media items associated with an event, wherein each of the plurality of media items is created by capturing the event; synchronizing the audio portions of each of the plurality of media items according to a common reference timeline; and providing the plurality of media items for presentation in an interactive multi-view player interface based on the synchronized audio portions, wherein the interactive multi-view player interface allows a user of a plurality of users to switch between the plurality of media items, wherein the interactive multi-view player interface indicates a video density indicating a quantity of media items available at a given point in time and a popularity indicator of one of the plurality of media items at the given point in time, and wherein the popularity indicator at the given point in time is determined using one or more factors comprising a number of viewers of the respective media items at the given point in time.