An intelligent screen system for context-related scenery viewing in smart home

Abstract

With the growth of the popularity of large screens in the consumer market and the enrichment of the online and offline video resources, enjoying a dynamic remote scenery at home has become an interesting application. This paper presents an intelligent screen system for the user to interactively enjoy different sceneries of remote places. Different from existing works, the system is aware of the current environment, and the weather condition in the remote scenery video is associated with that of the local place in different ways to bring the user a natural and pleasant viewing experience. Meanwhile, the system is able to transform the layout of the scenery video according to the user's position and viewing angle, making the user feel like viewing the outside scenery through a real window when walking and looking around in front of the screen. A prototype consisting of a large screen and several low-cost sensors is implemented and a series of tests are conducted. The results show that the proposed system can effectively improve the users' experience on natural scenery viewing and make the process more pleasant. The system fits for screens with various sizes and can be easily installed, making it a scalable and ease-of-use consumer device in smart home 1 .