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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2017
Telepresence Technologies, Llc, Plano, TX (US);
Peter McDuffie White, McKinney, TX (US);
Telepresence Technologies, LLC, Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
In a system and method for video communications, a user in an observation zone views a display image rendered on a vertically oriented screen through a two-way mirror in front of the screen. The two-way mirror is vertically angled at substantially 45 degrees, and reflects a part of a side wall in the observation zone. The backdrop for the light-emitting portion of the display image is provided by the reflection that is superimposed by the two-way mirror onto the non-light-emitting portion of the display image. The backdrop provides the light-emitting portion of the display image with a depth relationship that is observable when the user views the display image along a line of vision that extends straight through the two-way mirror to the screen behind the two-way mirror. A camera embedded in the side wall captures video of the user that is reflected by the two-way mirror from the observation zone back into the camera.