US 12,395,691 B2
Video display system and video display method
Masayuki Kozuka, Tokyo (JP); Yoshihiro Mori, Osaka (JP); Junya Suzuki, Kyoto (JP); Yoshiichiro Kashiwagi, Kyoto (JP); Yasutoshi Yamamoto, Osaka (JP); and Toshiro Nishio, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Appl. No. 18/286,357
Filed by Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
PCT Filed Apr. 18, 2022, PCT No. PCT/JP2022/018089
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 10, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/220308, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 20, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/176,004, filed on Apr. 16, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0196062 A1, Jun. 13, 2024
Int. Cl. H04N 21/218 (2011.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 40/58 (2020.01); G06T 5/50 (2006.01); G06T 7/20 (2017.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06T 17/00 (2006.01); G09G 5/36 (2006.01); H04N 21/235 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/439 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04N 21/4788 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/4316 (2013.01) [G02B 27/0172 (2013.01); G06F 3/011 (2013.01); G06F 3/013 (2013.01); G06F 40/58 (2020.01); G06T 5/50 (2013.01); G06T 7/20 (2013.01); G06T 15/00 (2013.01); G06T 17/00 (2013.01); G09G 5/36 (2013.01); H04N 21/21805 (2013.01); H04N 21/2353 (2013.01); H04N 21/439 (2013.01); H04N 21/472 (2013.01); H04N 21/4788 (2013.01); H04N 21/8106 (2013.01); H04N 21/816 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20221 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A video display system that provides a service for an experience of a virtual reality (VR), the video display system comprising:
a VR system including a display that displays a VR space that is a video for the VR to a participant who participates in the experience, and an audio processor that receives and outputs voice from and to the participant;
an explainer terminal that receives and outputs voice from and to an explainer, the explainer providing an explanation for the experience to the participant in the VR space;
a video distributor that distributes a 360-degree video for generating the VR space to the VR system;
an audio conversation unit that assists an audio conversation between the participant and the explainer via the VR system and the explainer terminal; and
a controller that controls at least one of the VR system, the explainer terminal, the video distributor, or the audio conversation unit, wherein
the controller manages an operation mode that selectively takes a first state in which a question from the participant to the explainer is not allowed, a second state in which the question is allowed, and a third state in which the question is being asked, and causes the VR system to display information specifying that the operation mode is the first state, the second state or the third state on the display.