Utilizing a smart camera system for immersive telepresence

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8957940-B2
Application number	US-201313793524-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 11, 2013
Priority date	Mar 11, 2013
Publication date	Feb 17, 2015
Grant date	Feb 17, 2015

Abstract

Video content is received at a computing device that camera views provided by video cameras that are aligned to capture images of participants within a defined space. Each camera view is at a first resolution and the video cameras are aligned such that a field of view (FOV) for each camera overlaps a portion of the FOV of at least one other adjacent camera. Positions of participants depicted within the video content are detected, where at least one participant is captured by overlapping FOVs of two adjacent camera views. A target view is generated from the first number of camera views, the target view having a second resolution that is lower than the first resolution, and the target view includes a view of the at least one participant captured within the overlapping FOVs of two adjacent camera views. The target view is displayed at a display device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving at a computing device video content comprising a first number of camera views provided by a plurality of video cameras that are aligned to capture images of participants within a defined space, wherein each camera view is at a first resolution and the video cameras are aligned such that a field of view (FOV) for each camera overlaps a portion of the FOV of at least one other adjacent camera;
detecting, by the computing device…

Assignees

• Cisco Tech Inc

Inventors

• Tian Dihong

Classifications

• H04N7/15 Primary

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