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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2006
Applicant:
Adrien Bruno, Grasse, FR;
Inventor:
Adrien Bruno, Grasse, FR;
Assignee:
France Telecom, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of controlling movement of a line of sight of a video camera mounted on a mobile videoconferencing terminal includes: a) a step () of using at least two microphones spaced apart from each other in three dimensions and attached to the mobile terminal to pick up a sound uttered by a user of the mobile terminal, b) a step () of responding to the signals from the microphones to establish a direction in which the mouth of the user is located, and c) a step () of controlling movement of the line of sight as a function of the direction established during step b).