WEB PAGE BASED VIDEO SERVICE AND APPARATUS
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1. Method, comprising:
- providing a web page showing a plurality of available videos from a corresponding plurality of video cameras of various owners, said cameras for acquiring said videos and made available by said owners over a telecommunications network for selection by a plurality of users using said web page on a corresponding plurality of displays in different geographic locations, providing videos selected by said plurality of users via said telecommunications network to said plurality of users of said corresponding plurality of displays according to selection signals received over said network from said plurality of users wherein each selection signal is indicative of a particular video selected by a particular user of said web page and wherein each of said plurality of available videos is selectable for use in viewing at a same time by more than one user of said plurality of users of said web page at said different geographic locations, and storing one or more of said plurality of available videos for display on said web page as stored videos for selection by said plurality of users so that video selection for viewing is delayed in time after video acquisition by said cameras to any extent.
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Abstract
A telepresence server is for connection to a telecommunications network for providing access to a reality engine for a plurality of passive users. The reality engine can be controlled by an active user or a professional director through the network or by a local professional director. Active/passive mode displays can be used by the passive users in a passive mode and an active/passive mode display can be used by the active user in an active mode.
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1. Method, comprising:
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providing a web page showing a plurality of available videos from a corresponding plurality of video cameras of various owners, said cameras for acquiring said videos and made available by said owners over a telecommunications network for selection by a plurality of users using said web page on a corresponding plurality of displays in different geographic locations, providing videos selected by said plurality of users via said telecommunications network to said plurality of users of said corresponding plurality of displays according to selection signals received over said network from said plurality of users wherein each selection signal is indicative of a particular video selected by a particular user of said web page and wherein each of said plurality of available videos is selectable for use in viewing at a same time by more than one user of said plurality of users of said web page at said different geographic locations, and storing one or more of said plurality of available videos for display on said web page as stored videos for selection by said plurality of users so that video selection for viewing is delayed in time after video acquisition by said cameras to any extent. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. Apparatus, comprising:
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a memory for storing a plurality of videos received from a corresponding plurality of video cameras of various owners at different sites; and
a server, for providing a web page for displaying a plurality of available videos on said web page indicative of said plurality of videos received from said corresponding plurality of video cameras, said server responsive to selection signals from a plurality of users in different geographic locations via a telecommunications network, for providing selected videos to said plurality of users via said telecommunications network according to said selection signals wherein each of said one or more videos is selectable by multiple users at a same time, wherein any one or more of said plurality of available videos from said plurality of video cameras are stored in said memory for display on said web page as stored videos for selection by said users so that video selection for viewing is delayed in time after video acquisition by said cameras to any extent. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. Apparatus, comprising:
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means for providing a web page showing a plurality of available videos from a corresponding plurality of video cameras of various owners, said cameras for acquiring said videos and made available by said owners over a telecommunications network for selection by a plurality of users using said web page on a corresponding plurality of displays in different geographic locations, means for providing videos selected by said plurality of users via said telecommunications network to said plurality of users of said corresponding plurality of displays according to selection signals received over said network from said plurality of users wherein each selection signal is indicative of a particular video selected by a particular user of said web page and wherein each of said plurality of available videos is selectable for use in viewing at a same time by more than one user of said plurality of users of said web page at said different geographic locations, and means for storing one or more of said plurality of available videos for display on said web page as stored videos for selection by said plurality of users so that video selection for viewing is delayed in time after video acquisition by said cameras to any extent. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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