Patent ID: 9729825
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. 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; analyzing the video stream received from a client device to detect a silhouette metadata channel carrying silhouette data the silhouette data being selected from the group consisting of coarse silhouette information representing coordinates of a characteristic point of the face of the person and fine silhouette information representing a mask corresponding to the shape and location of the person within a frame of the video stream; analyzing the silhouette data when a silhouette metadata channel has been detected and; in the case that a silhouette metadata channel is detected, extracting the person's silhouette as a function of the silhouette data and generating a filtered video stream representing only the silhouette of the person; in the case that a silhouette metadata channel has not been detected, generating in the computer server silhouette data from the video stream received and extracting the person's silhouette from the incoming video stream as a function of the silhouette data generated; and generating a video stream of a virtual scene comprising a plurality of the silhouettes extracted from the plurality of filtered video streams.