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NUI video conference controls

  • US 9,274,606 B2
  • Filed: 03/14/2013
  • Issued: 03/01/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of providing a video conference between a local location and a remote location, the method comprising:

  • receiving at the local location, video and audio signal obtained from a remote capture device disposed at the remote location, the obtained signals including those that are representative of real sights and real sound captured at the remote location by the remote capture device and are thus representative of real aspects of the remote location, the remote capture device being part of a remote system that is operatively coupled via a network to a local system having a local capture device disposed at the local location, the remote capture device including a respective remote depth camera;

    presenting at the local location, a respective local representation of the remote location including that derived from the obtained video and audio signal that are respectively representative of real sights and real sound as captured by the remote capture device, the local representation including a displayed representation presented on a local display proximate to the local capture device;

    tracking movements of a local user in a space proximate to the local capture device; and

    responsive to a user'"'"'s local gesture detected by the local capture device, controlling the remote system to alter how it captures and processes reality representing signals at the remote location including altering processing of audio or visual signals by the remote system such that the respective local representation of real aspects of the remote location is correspondingly altered, said altering including altering of processing of depth based visual signals having a depth attribute provided by the remote depth camera.

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