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Combining views of a plurality of cameras for a video conferencing endpoint with a display wall

  • US 8,164,617 B2
  • Filed: 03/25/2009
  • Issued: 04/24/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A telepresence apparatus comprising:

  • a display wall;

    a plurality of synchronized video cameras substantially co-planar with the display wall providing respective camera views together covering a scene;

    an interface to accept the camera views;

    a camera view processor system to generate a synthetic particular view from a particular point on the opposite side of the display wall than the scene and at a substantial distance therefrom, the camera view processor system including;

    a depth map creator module to create an integrated depth map;

    a view synthesizer module to combine the camera views according to the integrated depth map, including warping of particular camera views to form the synthetic particular view at a viewpoint, including scaling the sizes of objects or participants to maintain perspective and the relationship of object sizes according to their respective distances to the display wall; and

    a video forming module to form video for transmission to one or more remote endpoints.

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