Apple Inc.

Google Inc.

Julio Cesar Hernandez Zaragoza

Johnnie B Manzari

Fiona Paula O'Leary

Julian K Missig

Colvin Pitts

Ariel Braunstein

Florian Ciurea

Gang Pan

Jonathan H Frank

Guillaume R Ardaud

Michael Wish Tao

Geoffrey T Anneheim

Jie Tan

Jon Karafin

Thomas Nonn

Alex Song

Sean Z Amadio

Tim Milliron

Yusuke Yasui

Mark Norman Lester Jouppi

Saeid Shahhosseini

Eric Bujold

Bipeng Zhang

Stephane Simon Rene Ben Soussan

Volker Roelke

Lukas R Girling

Orin Green

Steve Cooper

The present disclosure generally relates to embodiments for video communication interface for managing content that is shared during a video communication session.

Wide angle video conference

Depths of one or more objects in a scene may be measured with enhanced accuracy through the use of a light-field camera and a depth sensor. The light-field camera may capture a light-field image of the scene. The depth sensor may capture depth sensor data of the scene. Light-field depth data may be extracted from the light-field image and used, in combination with the sensor depth data, to generate a depth map indicative of distance between the light-field camera and one or more objects in the scene. The depth sensor may be an active depth sensor that transmits electromagnetic energy toward the scene; the electromagnetic energy may be reflected off of the scene and detected by the active depth sensor. The active depth sensor may have a 360&#xb0; field of view; accordingly, one or more mirrors may be used to direct the electromagnetic energy between the active depth sensor and the scene.

Combining light-field data with active depth data for depth map generation

An electronic device comprises circuitry implementing a depth map enhancer. The depth map enhancer obtains an initial depth map corresponding to a scene and an image of the scene. The depth map enhancer generates a refined depth map corresponding to the scene using an optimizer, the initial depth map and the image. The refined depth map includes estimated depth indicators corresponding to at least a first depth-information region, identified based at least in part on a first criterion, of the initial depth map. Input based on the refined depth map is provided to an image processing application.

Efficient scene depth map enhancement for low power devices

A combined video of a scene may be generated for applications such as virtual reality or augmented reality. In one method, a camera system may be oriented at a first orientation and used to capture first video of a first portion of the scene. The camera system may then be rotated to a second orientation and used to capture second video of a second portion of the scene that is offset from the first portion such that the first video and the second video each have an overlapping video portion depicting an overlapping portion of the scene in which the first portion and the second portion of the scene overlap with each other. The first and second portions may be combined together to generate the combined video, which may depict the first and second portions substantially without duplicative inclusion of the overlapping video portion.

Wedge-based light-field video capture

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Julio Cesar Hernandez Zaragoza