Small-screen movie-watching using a viewport

摘要

This document describes techniques and apparatuses for small-screen movie-watching using a viewport. These techniques enable viewers to experience movies and other media programs using a small screen as a viewport to the movie rather than dramatically compressing or cropping the movie to fit the small screen. A viewer may select whatever portion of the movie imagery he or she desires to experience through the small screen at a size sufficient to perceive details of plot elements and an environment in which the plot elements interact. Thus, the viewer may follow plot elements central to the plot while also exploring the environment that provides context for these plot elements.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
determining, based on a screen size of a display on which a movie is or is intended to be presented and on an intended distance from an intended screen to a viewer of the movie, a fraction of the movie to present through a viewport on the display, the fraction representing a portion of an image size of images of the movie; presenting the fraction of the movie through the viewport on the display; enabling selection to present, by altering an orientation of the viewport, plot elements central to a plot of the movie or an environment of the plot elements; and when the selections present the plot elements, continuing the plot of the movie and when the selections present the environment, ceasing to continue the plot of the movie.