Cisco Technology, Inc.

Marthinus F De Beer

Philip Roland Graham

Ashok T Desai

Randy K Harrell

Richard Thayer Wales

Shmuel Shaffer

Joshua T Druker

Martin A Leugers

Tark Abed

Peter H J How

Philip E Marechal

Andrew D Grunes

Feng Hao Yu

A method for preventing movement in a telepresence system, includes a plurality of cameras. Each camera has a respective field of vision for viewing one or more users. The fields of vision each have lateral boundaries. The system also includes a plurality of restrictive elements. Each restrictive element is positioned along a respective lateral boundary of a field of vision of the fields of vision of the plurality of cameras such that viewed users each positioned within a field of vision of the plurality of cameras are restricted by the plurality of restrictive elements from moving outside of the field of vision in which each viewed user is positioned.

System and method for providing a perception of a continuous surface in a telepresence system

A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving data indicative of a personal position of an end user. A media stream is selected from a plurality of media streams to be transmitted to the end user based on the personal position. The selected media stream includes image data of an object captured by a camera and the image data is used to construct a three-dimensional rendering of the object. In more specific embodiments, the media stream selection is executed by a server configured to be coupled to a network. The camera can be part of a plurality of cameras that capture image data associated with the object and that transmit respective media streams over a network. Once a camera begins transmitting image data over the network and to the end user, other cameras from the plurality of cameras stop transmitting their respective media streams over the network.

System and method for providing three dimensional video conferencing in a network environment

Telepresence display

System and method for preventing movement in a telepresence system

Telepresence system

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Marthinus F De Beer