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Real-time immersive mediated reality experiences

  • US 10,089,785 B2
  • Filed: 07/02/2015
  • Issued: 10/02/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for creating a mediated reality environment, said system comprising a server computing system comprising a processor coupled to a tangible, non-transitory memory, the system operable to:

  • receive, in real-time, real viewpoint information for a plurality of data collectors located at a venue wherein one or more of the one or more data collectors comprise a computing device of a real participant, said computing device comprising a sensor selected from the group consisting of a GPS sensor, a wireless network sensor, an accelerometer, and a gyroscope wherein the real viewpoint information is determined using the sensor;

    receive a virtual viewpoint from a computing device of a virtual participant, said computing device comprising a processor coupled to a tangible, non-transitory memory;

    identify one or more of the one or more data collectors having a real viewpoint which intersects the virtual viewpoint;

    receive one or more real-time images from the identified data collectors, said one or more real-time images comprising a plurality of real pixels;

    create, using the server'"'"'s processor, a real-time virtual image comprising a plurality of virtual pixels and corresponding to the virtual viewpoint by using pixel information from the one or more real-time images wherein the virtual viewpoint'"'"'s location within the venue is different than the real viewpoint of the identified data collectors; and

    cause the computing device of the virtual participant to display the real-time virtual image.

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