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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2014
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne Billancourt, FR;
Moulay Fadili, Colombes, FR;
Rabih Abou-Chakra, Colombes, FR;
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
A method for generating an immersive video of a plurality of persons in a computer server, the method comprising: —receiving a plurality of video streams on a plurality of video channels from a plurality of client devices, each video stream including a silhouette of a person; —extracting the person's silhouette from each incoming video stream to generate a filtered video stream representing only the silhouette of the person; —generating a video stream of a virtual scene comprising a plurality of—the silhouettes extracted from the plurality of filtered video streams the method further comprising receiving silhouette data carried on a metadata channel from a client device in addition to the video stream, the silhouette data representing a position of a face of the person within a frame of the video stream; —analyzing the silhouette data performing the silhouette extraction as a function of the silhouette data analyzed.