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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2002
Thomas Malzbender, Palo Alto, CA (US);
W. Bruce Culbertson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
H. Harlyn Baker, Los Altos, CA (US);
Michael E. Goss, Burlingame, CA (US);
Daniel G. Gelb, Los Altos, CA (US);
Irwin Sobel, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Donald O. Tanguay, San Mateo, CA (US);
Thomas Malzbender, Palo Alto, CA (US);
W. Bruce Culbertson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
H. Harlyn Baker, Los Altos, CA (US);
Michael E. Goss, Burlingame, CA (US);
Daniel G. Gelb, Los Altos, CA (US);
Irwin Sobel, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Donald O. Tanguay, San Mateo, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for real-time video communication. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention discloses a method of video conferencing that captures a plurality of real-time video streams of a local participant from a plurality of sample viewpoints. From the plurality of video streams, a new view synthesis technique can be applied to generate a video image stream in real-time of the local participant rendered from a second location of a second participant with respect to a first location of the local participant in a coordinate space of a virtual environment. A change in either of the locations leads to the modifying of the video image stream, thereby enabling real-time video communication from the local participant to the second participant.