Patent ID: 9560314
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: G01B,G06F,G06Q,H04N

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented process for making any surface interactive and shared, comprising: establishing a collaborative session between a local location and at least one remote location; using a color camera, a depth camera and a projector at each location, calibrating a local horizontal arbitrary surface at the local location and at least one remote horizontal arbitrary surface at a remote location; simultaneously capturing color video and depth images of the local horizontal arbitrary surface at the local location; separating the foreground and the background of the color video of the local horizontal surface; transmitting the foreground of the color video of the local horizontal surface to at least one selected remote location; projecting the foreground video of the local horizontal surface onto the remote horizontal surface of the at least one selected remote location to superimpose the color video of the local horizontal surface onto the remote horizontal surface at the selected remote location.