True Meeting Inc.

Applied Materials Israel Limited

Cavendish Capital LLC

Gentex Corporation

Yuval Gronau

Ran Oz

Osnat Goren-Peyser

Tal Perl

Michael Rabinovich

Erez Posner

Amir Bassan-Eskenazi

Barak Dee-Noor

Nery Strasman

Ishai Schwarzband

Ofir Greenberg

Chun-Hsiang Yen

Ron Naftali

Yoram Uziel

Dror Shemesh

Guy Raz

Doron Korngut

Benzion Sender

Efim Vinnitsky

Ran Schleyen

Yuri Belenky

Yohanan Madmon

Omri Kaduri

Ron Bar-or

Ronen Hagai

A method for creating a variable model of a face of a person, the method comprises: obtaining a non-riggable model of the face of the person; performing a first approximation process that comprises generating an intermediate variable model that approximates the non-riggable model, using an interactive variable model infrastructure; wherein the generating comprises iteratively changing shape parameters of the intermediate model until fulfilling a proximity condition; and performing a second approximation process that comprises generating the variable model, by iteratively modifying vertices.

Method for creating a variable model of a face of a person

A method for creating a non-riggable model of a face of a person, the method includes obtaining video and depth information regarding the face of the person, wherein different images of the video are acquired by a camera at different camera locations; and for each image of the different images repeating the steps of: separating face information from background information; determining translation and rotation parameters that represent the different camera locations; and generating the non-riggable model of the face of the person based on the face information and the translation and rotation parameters.

Creating a non-riggable model of a face of a person

A method for updating a current three dimensional (3D) model of a person, that method may include calculating current locations, within a two-dimensional (2D) space, of current face landmark points of a face of a person within a first image; the calculating is based on the current 3D model, and one or more current acquisition parameters of a 2D camera; wherein the current 3D model of the person is located within a 3D space; calculating second locations, within the 2D space, of second face landmark points of the face of the person within a second image that follows the first image; calculating correspondences between the current locations and the second locations; calculating, based on the correspondences, locations of the second face landmark points within the 3D space; and modifying the current 3D model based on the locations of the second face landmark points within the 3D space.

Updating 3D models of persons

A method for conducting a three dimensional (3D) video conference between multiple participants, the method may include acquiring visual information, by a visual sensing unit related to a certain participant; identifying multiple persons that appear in the visual information; finding, out of the multiple persons, at least one relevant person; determining 3D entity representation information, for each of the at least one relevant person; and generating, for at least one participant, a representation of a virtual 3D video conference environment, based on the 3D entity representation information for each of the at least one relevant person.

Method and system for virtual 3D communications having multiple participants per camera

A method for generating a texture map used during a video conference, the method may include obtaining multiple texture maps of multiple areas of at least a portion of a three-dimensional (3D) object in which the multiple texture maps comprise a first texture map of a first area and of a first resolution, and a second texture map of a second area and of a second resolution, in which the first area differs from the second area and the first resolution differs from the second resolution; generating a texture map of the at least portion of the 3D object. The generating is based on the multiple texture maps; and utilizing the visual representation of the at least portion of the 3D object based on the texture map of the at least portion of the 3D object during the video conference.

3D video conferencing

System and methods are provided for detecting occupancy state in a vehicle having an interior passenger compartment the systems and methods include analyzing data of the interior passenger compartment to yield at least one probability of a current occupancy state of said vehicle and further analyzing additional data of the interior passenger compartment to yield predicted probabilities of said occupancy state of said vehicle, wherein each probability of the predicted probabilities relate to the probability of changing said current occupancy state to different occupancy state combining the current at least one probability of the current occupancy state with the predicted probabilities of the occupancy state to yield an updated probability of an updated occupancy state of said vehicle; determining the current occupancy state based on said updated probability of an updated occupancy state of said vehicle and generating an output to control one or more devices or applications based on the determined occupancy state.

System, device, and methods for detecting and obtaining information on objects in a vehicle

A method for audio quality improvement related to a participant of a virtual three dimensional (3D) video conference, the method may include: determining participant generated audio, by a machine learning process and based on image analysis of a video of the participant obtained during the virtual 3D video conference; and generating participant related audio information based at least on the participant generated audio; wherein the participant related audio information, once provided to a computerized system of another participant, causes the computerized system of the other participant to generate participant related audio of higher quality than participant audio when the participant audio is included in sensed audio that is sensed by an audio sensor that is associated with the participant.

Audio quality improvement related to a participant of a virtual three dimensional (3D) video conference

A method for virtual 3D video conference environment generation, the method may include (a) determining a first optical axis of a first virtual camera, the first optical axis represents a line of sight of the participant while a participant of the 3D video conference environment looks at a current displayed version of a virtual 3D video conference environment (V3DVCE); the current displayed version of the V3DVCE is displayed on a display; (b) determining a second optical axis of a second virtual camera that virtually captures the V3DVCE to provide the current displayed version of the V3DVCE; and (c) generating a next displayed version of the V3DVCE based on at least one of the first optical axis and the second optical axis.

Virtual 3D video conference environment generation

A method for conducting a three dimensional (3D) video conference between multiple participants, the method may include receiving initial 3D participant representation information for generating the 3D representation of the participant under different circumstances; receiving, by a user device of a first participant and during the 3D video conference call, second participant circumstances metadata indicative of one or more current circumstances regarding a second participant; and updating, by the user device of the first participant, a 3D participant representation of the second participant, within a first representation of virtual 3D video conference environment.

Circumstances based 3D representations of participants of virtual 3D communications

A method for sharing content during a virtual 3D video conference, the method may include inviting multiple participants to join a virtual 3D video conference; creating a shared folder dedicated for storing shared content items, wherein the shared content is accessible during at least during the virtual 3D video conference; enabling access, to the multiple participants, to the shared folder; wherein the access is governed by one or more access control rule; and conducting the virtual 3D video conference; wherein the conducting comprises sharing at least one of the content items.

Sharing content during a virtual 3D video conference

A method for foreground and background segmentation related to a virtual three-dimensional (3D) video conference, the method may include segmenting each image of multiple images of a video stream, to segments, each segment has one or more properties that are constant; determining temporal properties of the segments; and classifying each segment as a background segment or a foreground segment, based at least in part, on the temporal properties of the segments.

Foreground and background segmentation related to a virtual three-dimensional (3D) video conference

A method for conducting a three dimensional (3D) video conference between multiple participants, the method may include receiving direction of gaze information regarding a direction of gaze of each participant within a representation of a virtual 3D video conference environment that is associated with the participant; determining, for each participant, updated 3D participant representation information within the virtual 3D video conference environment, that reflects the direction of gaze of the participant; and generating, for at least one participant, an updated representation of virtual 3D video conference environment, the updated representation of virtual 3D video conference environment represents the updated 3D participant representation information for at least some of the multiple participants.

Method and system for virtual 3D communications

A method for conducting a three dimensional (3D) video conference between multiple participants, the method may include receiving second participant metadata and first viewpoint metadata by a first unit that is associated with a first participant, wherein the second participant metadata is indicative of a pose of a second participant and an expression of the second participant, wherein the first viewpoint metadata is indicative of a virtual position from which the first participant requests to view an avatar of the second participant; generating, by the first unit, and based on the second participant metadata and the first viewpoint metadata, a second participant representation information; wherein the second participant representation information comprises a compact 3D model of the second participant and a second participant texture map; and determining, for the first participant and during the 3D video conference, a representation of virtual 3D video conference environment, wherein the determining is based on the second participant representation information.

Virtual 3D communications with participant viewpoint adjustment

A method for generating a three dimensional (3D) visual representation of a sensed object that is three dimensional, the method comprises obtaining at least one 3D visual representation parameter, the visual representation parameters is selected out of a size parameter, a resolution parameter, and a resource consumption parameter; obtaining object information that represents the sensed object; selecting, based on the at least one parameter, a neural network for generating the visual representation of the sensed object; and generating the 3D visual representation of the 3D object by the selected neural network.

Generating a 3D visual representation of the 3D object using a neural network selected out of multiple neural networks

A method for conducting a three dimensional (3D) video conference between multiple participants, the method may include determining, for each participant, updated 3D participant representation information within the virtual 3D video conference environment, that represents participants; wherein the determining comprises estimating 3D participant representation information of one or more hidden areas of a face of a participant that are hidden from the camera that captures at least one visible area of the face of the participant; and generating, for at least one participant, an updated representation of virtual 3D video conference environment, the updated representation of virtual 3D video conference environment represents the updated 3D participant representation information for at least some of the multiple participants.

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Yuval Gronau