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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2014

Filed:

Apr. 16, 2009
Applicants:

Ian N. Robinson, Pebble Beach, CA (US);

Daniel G. Gelb, Redwood City, CA (US);

Kar-han Tan, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ian N. Robinson, Pebble Beach, CA (US);

Daniel G. Gelb, Redwood City, CA (US);

Kar-Han Tan, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/14 (2006.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04N 7/15 (2006.01); H04M 3/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/15 (2013.01); H04M 3/567 (2013.01); H04N 7/142 (2013.01); H04L 12/1827 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods of visually indicating one or more gestures of a user of a node () in the content of a media stream () are disclosed. A node () configured to transmit a media stream () having content to one or more other nodes () includes a screen configured to display the content of the media stream, a media device () configured to capture an image of one or more gestures of the user of the node (), wherein the one or more gestures are adjacent to the screen and the media device () is positioned to capture the image without capturing more than a peripheral view of the screen in that image; a media analyzer () configured to generate a visual representation of the captured one or more gestures; and a compositer () configured to composite the visual representation of the captured one or more gestures with the content of the media stream ().


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