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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 24, 2015
Applicant:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Inventors:
In Ki Hwang, Daejeon, KR;
Mi Suk Lee, Daejeon, KR;
Assignee:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); H04N 7/14 (2006.01); H04N 13/00 (2006.01); H04N 13/02 (2006.01); H04N 13/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/144 (2013.01); H04N 13/0011 (2013.01); H04N 13/0022 (2013.01); H04N 13/0239 (2013.01); H04N 13/0271 (2013.01); H04N 13/0484 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a new eye-contact function providing method which provides a natural eye-contact function to attendances by using a stereo image and a depth image to estimate a precise depth value of the occlusion region and improve a quality of a composite eye-contact image when there are two or more remote attendances in one site at the time of a video conference using a video conference system and an apparatus therefor.