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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2013
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Rajesh K. Hegde, Redmond, WA (US);
Zhengyou Zhang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Philip A. Chou, Bellevue, WA (US);
Cha Zhang, Sammamish, WA (US);
Zicheng Liu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Sasa Junuzovic, Carrboro, NC (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Multi-device capture and spatial browsing of conferences is described. In one implementation, a system detects cameras and microphones, such as the webcams on participants' notebook computers, in a conference room, group meeting, or table game, and enlists an ad-hoc array of available devices to capture each participant and the spatial relationships between participants. A video stream composited from the array is browsable by a user to navigate a 3-dimensional representation of the meeting. Each participant may be represented by a video pane, a foreground object, or a 3-D geometric model of the participant's face or body displayed in spatial relation to the other participants in a 3-dimensional arrangement analogous to the spatial arrangement of the meeting. The system may automatically re-orient the 3-dimensional representation as needed to best show a currently interesting event.