Patent ID: 9332218
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: G06T,H04N,H04R,H04S

Claim Text:
1. A method for creating an in-person communication experience between participants in an online meeting, comprising: capturing Red-Green-Blue (RGB) data and depth information of the local participant from a plurality of camera pods arranged around a monitor that a local participant is viewing; creating a geometric proxy for the local participant by adding the RGB and the depth information; generating scene geometry based on a number of participants in the online meeting, including the local participant; rendering the geometric proxy for the local participant and geometric proxies for each of the other participants in the online meeting to each other in the scene geometry so that the scene geometry is consistent with an in-person conversation; transmitting the rendered geometric proxies and scene geometry to each of the participants; displaying a virtual viewpoint to the local participant that includes a rendered geometric proxy for each of the participants along with a background that is part of the scene geometry; changing the virtual viewpoint based on a position of the local participant's face such that the local participant's view of other participants and the background is dependent on an orientation of the local participant's face; and adding an illusion of depth to the virtual viewpoint using motion parallax to create the in-person communication experience between the participants in the online meeting.