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Providing a tele-immersive experience using a mirror metaphor

  • US 9,325,943 B2
  • Filed: 02/20/2013
  • Issued: 04/26/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A tele-immersive environment for providing interaction among a plurality of participants of a tele-immersive session, the tele-immersive environment comprising:

  • a plurality of set-up systems, each set-up system of the plurality of set-up systems operating in a different geographical location and providing an interactive experience of the tele-immersive session to a participant that is local to the respective set-up system, and each set-up system comprising;

    image capture functionality configured to capture local camera information that represents the local participant associated with the set-up system;

    a local processing system configured to;

    receive the local camera information;

    generate local three-dimensional object information based on the local camera information;

    transfer local input information to at least one remote processing system associated with at least one remote participant that is local to a remote set-up system, the local input information corresponding to information associated with objects identified by the local processing system;

    receive remote input information from said at least one remote processing system, the remote input information corresponding to information associated with objects identified by said at least one remote processing system; and

    compose three-dimensional scene information based on the local three-dimensional object information and the remote input information; and

    mirror functionality configured to present a three-dimensional virtual space based on the three-dimensional scene information, the three-dimensional virtual space showing multiple remote participants of the plurality of participants without the local participant as if the multiple remote participants were physically present at a same location and looking into a mirror.

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