SYSTEM FOR COMBINING A PLURALITY OF VIEWS OF REAL-TIME STREAMING INTERACTIVE VIDEO

• Main Authors: VAN DER LAAN ROGER, PERLMAN STEPHEN G
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Korean
• Published: 28.10.2010
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

An apparatus comprising: a plurality of servers (402) configured to run one or more twitch video games or applications to produce a plurality of streams of uncompressed streaming interactive video; and a compression unit (404) that compresses one or more of the streams of uncompressed streaming interactive video produced by the servers into a new stream of compressed streaming interactive video, the compression unit outputting the new stream of compressed streaming interactive video for transmission in packetized form through a network connection to a plurality of client devices (415) associated with a corresponding plurality of users, at least one user providing control input to at least one of the servers, the at least one user being geographically remote from a premises where at least one of the servers is located; wherein the new stream of compressed streaming interactive video is compressed with a worst-case, round-trip latency of 90 milliseconds, from a user control input to display of a response to the user control input on a client device of a user, over a transmission distance of up to 2414 kilometers.