System and method for personal floating video

• US 9,165,605 B1
• Filed: 09/10/2010
• Issued: 10/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Lindsay Friedman
• Inventors: Friedman, Lindsay
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Thai
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dunn, Mishawn
• Application Number:
  US12/879,733
• Time in Patent Office: 1,866 Days
• Field of Search: 386/224, 386/278, 386/280, 386/286, 386/287, 382/173, 345/619, 345/634, 345/418, 345/419, 345/473, 725/109, 725/112, 348/207.1, 348/211.3, 348/239, 348/241, 348/586
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/02 Editing, e.g. varying the order of information signals recorded on, or reproduced from, record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44008 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in the video stream arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/440245 the reformatting operation being performed only on part of the stream, e.g. a region of the image or a time segment
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/658 Transmission by the client directed to the server
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/75 Chroma key
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/793 for controlling the level of the chrominance signal, e.g. by means of automatic chroma control circuits

Abstract

Systems and methods for providing a user with a floating video of a subject are provided. The systems and methods generate a floating video by removing background pixels of a primary video using a background image/video, where the user records the primary video and the background image/video. The floating video may be generated on a recording device of the user and/or a remote server. Further, the user and/or the remote server may host the floating video.

Claims

1. A method for providing a user with a floating video of a subject, said method comprising:

receiving a primary video of the subject wherein the subject is located in front of a single color static background, wherein said static background has a color not known prior to said primary video being received, and wherein said single color of said static background is not limited to any predetermined color;

receiving background color removal input from a user that indicates a color of the static background, said background color input provided by an area of the background pixels within the primary video selected by the user or by an area of a color chart selected by the user, wherein said step of receiving background color removal input from the user comprises displaying said primary video to the user in real-time and, while the real-time video is being displayed to the user;

(i) receiving input from the user that indicates a background color of the real-time video to be removed; and

, (ii) altering the real-time video being displayed to the user to indicate said background color of the real-time video to be removed based on the user input and displaying the altered real-time video to the user so that the user can assess the background color to be removed;

based upon said input received from the user that indicates the background color to be removed, removing the indicated background color identified by the user from the primary video to define a subject video in which the static single color background is not visible, wherein the background color is removed from the primary video by identifying pixels within the primary video having said indicated background color to be removed and setting the identified backgrounds pixels to transparent;

transmitting the subject video to the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of transmitting the subject video to the user comprises transmitting the subject video to an application or website of the user over a communications network.

3. The video processing method as set forth in claim 1, further comprising recording the altered video is displayed in real-time to the user.