Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Yihua Xu

Jian Wang

Shipeng Li

Heung-Yeung Shum

Jian Jun Wang

Jiang Tao Li

Chunhui Zhang

Yingnong Dang

Zhouchen Lin

Hua Cai

An Xu

Jianguang Lou

Liyon Chen

Interactive multi-view video presents a new type of video capture system. Many video cameras are allocated to capture an event from various related locations and directions. The captured videos are compressed in control PCs and are sent to a server in real-time. The compressed video can also be transcoded through an off-line compression approach to further reduce the data amount. Users can subscribe to a new type of service that allows users to connect to the servers and receive multi-view videos interactively.

System and method for interactive multi-view video

A method and apparatus for performing EIC pattern analysis is described. Pattern feature extraction is performed followed by EIC symbol segmentation. A system may later use the result from the pattern analysis to determine a location of a captured image in relation to a larger array of EIC symbols.

Spatial transforms from displayed codes

The universal input device provides a common user interface for a variety of different computing platforms including printed documents. Using the present system, one may use the universal input device to control various computing devices as well as capture handwritten electronic ink and have the electronic ink be associated with new or stored documents. The universal input device can be identified by a specific identification in order to allow for multiple users to operate on a document and/or within an application program simultaneously or not. An off-set optical system with infrared illumination handles perspective and helps detect positional encoding which can be covered by existing ink under common visible light illumination.

Universal computing device

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Yihua Xu