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Fondation De L'institut De Recherche Idiap

Kenneth Alberto Funes Mora

Gang Liu

Jean-Marc Odobez

Yu Yu

The present invention relates to a method for capturing and displaying a video stream, comprising: capturing with one or a plurality of cameras a plurality of video streams of a scene, said scene comprising at least one person; reconstructing from said plurality of video streams a virtual environment representing the scene, determining the gaze direction of said person using at least one of said plurality of video streams; projecting said virtual environment onto a plane normal to said gaze direction for generating a virtual representation corresponding to what that person is looking at and from the point of view of that person; displaying said virtual representation on a display.

Method for capturing and displaying a video stream

User-input apparatus for head gesture based control comprising: a camera for recording a head of a user; a database for defining a plurality of gestures of the head of the user and for relating at least some of the defined gestures to a corresponding user command; a detector for detecting one of the gestures defined in the database in the recording of the camera; a controller for identifying a user command in the database related to the detected gesture and for giving out the user command related to the detected gesture; wherein one of the defined gestures of the head is a switching gesture and one of the user commands is a switching command related to the switching gesture, wherein, when the switching command is given out from the controller, the user-input apparatus switches between a use mode for the head gesture based control and a settings mode.

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Lausanne, Switzerland

Kenneth Alberto Funes Mora