Visual terminal apparatus having a pseudo background function and method of obtaining the same
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1. A visual terminal apparatus for providing a visual communication service, comprising:
- a camera unit for photographing a user image;
an image processing unit connected to said camera unit for extracting a portion of user'"'"'s image outputted from said camera unit and synthesizing the extracted portion of the user'"'"'s image with a pseudo background; and
a display unit for displaying the synthesized image outputted from said image processing unit.
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Abstract
A visual terminal apparatus for providing a visual telephone service includes a camera unit for photographing a user image; an image processing unit connected to the camera unit for extracting only the user'"'"'s face from the user image outputted from the camera unit and synthesizing the extracted user'"'"'s face with a pseudo background; and a display unit for displaying the image outputted from the image processing unit.
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1. A visual terminal apparatus for providing a visual communication service, comprising:
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a camera unit for photographing a user image;
an image processing unit connected to said camera unit for extracting a portion of user'"'"'s image outputted from said camera unit and synthesizing the extracted portion of the user'"'"'s image with a pseudo background; and
a display unit for displaying the synthesized image outputted from said image processing unit. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A method for transmitting a pseudo background image in a visual terminal apparatus which comprises a camera unit for photographing a user image to provide a visual telephone service, a memory for storing a plurality of background images and a display unit for displaying images, said method comprises the following steps of:
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capturing the user and background image photographed by the camera unit as an image file;
extracting a user'"'"'s image from the captured image; and
synthesizing the extracted user'"'"'s image with at least one of the background images from the memory to output a synthesized image to the display unit. - View Dependent Claims (7)
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8. A method for transmitting a pseudo background image in a visual terminal apparatus which comprises a camera unit for photographing a user image to provide a visual telephone service, a memory for storing a plurality of background images and a display unit for displaying images, said method comprises the steps of:
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capturing the user and background image photographed by the camera unit as an image file;
extracting a user'"'"'s image from the captured image; and
synthesizing the extracted user'"'"'s image with the plurality of background images from the memory to output a synthesized image to the display unit in a panoramic manner. - View Dependent Claims (9)
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