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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 29, 2016
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Nikolai Smolyanskiy, Seattle, WA (US);
Zhengyou Zhang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Vikram R. Dendi, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael Hall, Snohomish, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
In embodiments of collaborative camera viewpoint control for interactive telepresence, a system includes a vehicle that travels based on received travel instructions, and the vehicle includes a camera system of multiple cameras that each capture video of an environment in which the vehicle travels from different viewpoints. Viewing devices receive the video of the environment from the different viewpoints, where the video of the environment from a selected one of the viewpoints is displayable to users of the viewing devices. Controller devices that are associated with the viewing devices can each receive a user input as a proposed travel instruction for the vehicle based on the selected viewpoint of the video that is displayed on the viewing devices. A trajectory planner receives the proposed travel instructions initiated via the controller devices, and generates a consensus travel instruction for the vehicle based on the proposed travel instructions.