Method and apparatus for maintaining eye contact during person-to-person video telecommunication
First Claim
1. An apparatus for maintaining eye contact during person to person video telecommunication, the apparatus comprising:
- a display device for conducting person to person video telecommunications, said display device having a display matrix; and
at least one video camera disposed behind said display matrix, said video camera having capture frame rate equivalent to a frame rate of the display device.
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Abstract
The apparatus and method for maintaining eye contact during person to person video telecommunication includes disposing a video camera directly behind an OLED video display screen and synchronizing the video camera with the illumination levels of the display screen. This configuration allows the camera to observe the user from a natural face-on perspective, and effectively reconnects the eye-lines of the users, and restores all natural face-to-face emotional cues ordinarily disrupted by eye-line dissociation. Some embodiments include the use of this technique for stand-alone monitors, handheld devices, laptop computers, and the potential use in conjunction with autostereoscopic display technology, including wide look around or head and eye-tracking, for 3 dimensional eye-to-eye telecommunication.
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19 Claims
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1. An apparatus for maintaining eye contact during person to person video telecommunication, the apparatus comprising:
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a display device for conducting person to person video telecommunications, said display device having a display matrix; and
at least one video camera disposed behind said display matrix, said video camera having capture frame rate equivalent to a frame rate of the display device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. An apparatus for maintaining eye contact during person to person video telecommunication, the apparatus comprising:
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a display device for providing a display of a display image source and being capable of being used to conduct person to person video telecommunications, said display image source having a frame rate and phase characteristics; and
a video camera disposed behind said display matrix and having a shutter, said frame rate and phase characteristics of the display image source being used to drive said camera shutter. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13)
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14. A method for maintaining eye contact during person to person video telecommunication, the method comprising:
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providing a display device;
providing at least one video camera positioned behind the display device; and
synchronizing the at least one video camera with the frame refresh rate and phase characteristics of a display image source. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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