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Machine dynamic selection of one video camera/image of a scene from multiple video cameras/images of the scene in accordance with a particular perspective on the scene, an object in the scene, or an event in the scene

  • US 5,729,471 A
  • Filed: 03/31/1995
  • Issued: 03/17/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/31/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of presenting to a viewer a particular two-dimensional video image of a real-world three dimensional scene containing an object comprising:

  • imaging in multiple video cameras each at a different spatial location multiple two-dimensional images of a real-world scene each at a different spatial perspective not all of which scene perspectives may always and invariably show the object in the scene;

    combining in a computer the multiple two-dimensional images of the scene into a three-dimensional model of the scene so as to generate a three-dimensional model of the scene in which model the object in the scene is identified;

    selecting in the computer from the three-dimensional model a particular two-dimensional image of the scene, corresponding to one of the images of the real-world scene that is imaged by one of the multiple video cameras, showing the object; and

    displaying in a video display the particular two-dimensional image of the real-world scene showing the object to the viewer.

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