Abstract: Innovative techniques to generate a haptic stream are proposed. The proposed techniques allow haptic stream to be captured and along with audio/video stream. In so doing, a full experience—audio, video, haptics experience—may be experienced during playback.

Abstract: Examples are described of digital zoom retaining image characteristics such as sharpness, clarity, and/or contrast. In some aspects, a device can receive an image and can determine various image characteristic scores corresponding to digitally zoomed variants of the image having different zoom strengths. For instance, the device can determine a first image characteristic score for a first zoom strength and a second image characteristic score for a second zoom strength. The device can compare the image characteristic scores to an image characteristic threshold, and can select the highest zoom strength for which the corresponding image characteristic score is not below the image characteristic threshold. For example, the device can select the first zoom strength if the first image characteristic score meets or exceeds the image characteristic threshold while the second image characteristic score does not. The device can output image data corresponding to the image at the selected zoom strength.