Automated camera management system and method for capturing presentations using videography rules
First Claim
1. A method for capturing a presentation occurring in a presentation room, comprising:
- determining a number of audio-visual camera units to use in the capture of the presentation;
determining a type of the presentation room;
determining applicable videography rules based on the number of audio-visual camera units and the type of presentation room;
capturing the presentation using the audio-visual camera units;
determining, setting, and fixing a zoom level of at least one of the audio-visual camera units based on a history of a presenter'"'"'s movements in the presentation room such that if the presenter moves around the presentation room a great deal then the zoom level is zoomed out more than if the presenter does not move around the presentation room a great deal;
changing the zoom level only if the presenter moves out of a field-of-view of the audio-visual camera unit; and
managing the capture of the presentation based on the applicable videography rules and the history of the presenter'"'"'s movements in the presentation room;
wherein the applicable videography rules further comprise camera positioning rules that determine a location in the presentation room of the audio-visual camera units;
wherein the camera positioning rules further comprise positioning a first one of the audio-visual camera units to avoid capture by any other audio-visual camera units.
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Abstract
An automated camera management system and method for capturing presentations using videography rules. The system and method use technology components and aesthetic components represented by the videography rules to capture a presentation. In general, the automated camera management method captures a presentation using videography rules to determine camera positioning, camera movement, and switching or transition between cameras. The videography rules depend on the type of presentation room and the number of audio-visual camera units used to capture the presentation. The automated camera management system of the invention uses the above method to capture a presentation in a presentation room. The system includes a least one audio-visual (A-V) camera unit for capturing and tracking a subject based on vision or sound. The (A-V) camera unit includes any combination of the following components: (1) a pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) camera; (2) a fixed camera; and (3) a microphone array.
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38 Claims
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1. A method for capturing a presentation occurring in a presentation room, comprising:
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determining a number of audio-visual camera units to use in the capture of the presentation; determining a type of the presentation room; determining applicable videography rules based on the number of audio-visual camera units and the type of presentation room; capturing the presentation using the audio-visual camera units; determining, setting, and fixing a zoom level of at least one of the audio-visual camera units based on a history of a presenter'"'"'s movements in the presentation room such that if the presenter moves around the presentation room a great deal then the zoom level is zoomed out more than if the presenter does not move around the presentation room a great deal; changing the zoom level only if the presenter moves out of a field-of-view of the audio-visual camera unit; and managing the capture of the presentation based on the applicable videography rules and the history of the presenter'"'"'s movements in the presentation room; wherein the applicable videography rules further comprise camera positioning rules that determine a location in the presentation room of the audio-visual camera units; wherein the camera positioning rules further comprise positioning a first one of the audio-visual camera units to avoid capture by any other audio-visual camera units. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A method for capturing a presentation, comprising:
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providing at least one audio-visual camera unit that includes a presenter-tracking camera; positioning and moving the audio-visual camera units based on videography rules; focusing the presenter-tracking camera on a presenter'"'"'s current location in a presentation room; maintaining a trajectory of the presenter'"'"'s location in the presentation room during a previous time period and designating the trajectory during the time period as an activity area; defining a bounding box as a rectangle containing the activity area; determining, setting, and fixing a zoom level of the presenter-tracking camera based on a history of the presenter'"'"'s movements such that if the presenter moves around the presentation room a great deal then the zoom level is zoomed out more than if the presenter does not move around the presentation room a great deal and such that the entire activity area is captured to frame the presenter with the presenter-tracking camera within the bounding box, determining the zoom level, ZL, further comprising using the equation; where HFOV is the horizontal field of view of the presenter-tracking camera, VFOV is the vertical field of view of the presenter-tracking camera, and ∠
represents an angle spanned by the two arguments in a coordinate system of the presenter-tracking camera;changing the zoom level only if the presenter moves out of a field-of-view of the audio-visual camera unit; and automatically capturing the presentation using the at least one audio-visual camera unit and the videography rules; wherein the videography rules are based on a type of presentation room in which the presentation occurs and the type of presentation room is a large presentation room; wherein the audio-visual camera unit further comprises a presenter-tracking camera and the videography rules further comprise positioning the presenter-tracking camera higher from a floor in the large presentation room relative to a position of the presenter-tracking camera in a medium presentation room. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32)
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33. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for managing capture of a presentation in a presentation room comprising:
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determining videography rules for managing the capture based on the type of presentation room; positioning two audio-visual camera units based on the videography rules; determining a history of a presenter'"'"'s movement in the presentation room and using the history to determine a framing of the presenter based on the videography rules; and determining a zoom level of at least one of the two audio-visual camera units based on the history of the presenter'"'"'s movements such that an entire activity area of the presenter is captured; determining a location of an audience member in an audience of the presentation room by using a sound source localization technigue that uses a hybrid weighting function, the hybrid weighting function defined as; where γ
ε
[0,1] is a proportion factor and,
|N′
(ω
)|2=H(ω
)|2|S(ω
)|2+|N(ω
)|2.- View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36)
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37. A method for automatically capturing a presentation in a presentation room, comprising:
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determining videography rules for the capture based on the type of presentation room; positioning three audio-visual camera units based on the videography rules using a virtual cameraman to control the audio-visual camera units; determining a history of a presenter'"'"'s movement in the presentation room; framing shots of the presenter from at least one of the audio-visual camera units based on the history and the videography rules; and determining a zoom level of at least one of the three audio-visual camera units based on the history of the presenter'"'"'s movements such that an entire activity area of the presenter is captured; using a virtual director to select and determine which of the audio-visual camera units is an active camera; using the virtual cameramen to report a status to the virtual director, the status further comprising the following commands;
(a) mode status;
(b) action status;
(c) scene status;
(d) score status;
(e) confidence status.
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38. A method for capturing a moving presenter giving a presentation in a presentation room, comprising:
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determining applicable videography rules for managing the capture of the presentation; determining a history of the presenter'"'"'s movement; and positioning two audio-visual camera units based on the videography rules using a virtual cameraman; and determining, setting, and fixing a zoom level of at least one of the two audio-visual camera units based on the history of the presenter'"'"'s movements such that an entire activity area of the presenter is captured, such that if the presenter moves around the presentation room a great deal then the zoom level is zoomed out more than if the presenter does not move around the presentation room a great deal; changing the zoom level only if the presenter moves out of a field-of-view of any one of the two audio-visual camera units; using a virtual director to select and determine which of the audio-visual camera units is an active camera; using the virtual cameramen to report a status to the virtual director, the status further comprising the following commands;
(a) mode status;
(b) action status;
(c) scene status;
(d) score status;
(e) confidence status.
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