Huawei publishes VR barrage shunting patent

Huawei has recently applied for a patent for a “barrage playback method, related equipment, and storage media” and it’s powered by VR technologies. The patent application number is CN114257849B.

Details reveal that The abstract shows that the application can divert the barrage, reduce the peak pressure of the barrage, and improve the viewing effect of video content.

The method includes: receiving a barrage opening instruction for the target video to indicate that the barrage is played in a virtual reality VR barrage mode.

In response to the barrage opening instruction, draw a ring-shaped transparent barrage layer at a preset position of the video layer of the target video, wherein, the first height of the video layer is less than the second height of the bullet chat layer.

It could obtain the real-time bullet chat information of the target video, and calculate the three-dimensional coordinates of the real-time bullet chat on the bullet chat layer. You can refresh and play the real-time bullet chat according to the three-dimensional coordinates.