Patent ID: 6724417
Filing Date: 2004-04-20
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
An apparatus for presenting a composite image conveying eye contact with a conference participant, comprising:a composite image generator communicatively coupled with at least two members of an imaging device collection, for repeatedly receiving an image from each image device in said collection at approximately a same time to provide a sychromized image collection of said images based upon observations of said participant by said at least two members of said imaging device collection; wherein said composite image generator is communicatively coupled to a motion video portal for providing a succession of said composite images based upon at least said synchronized image collection for presentation to a video delivery system; wherein said video delivery system presents a second participant with a motion video stream conveying eye contact generated by said motion video portal based upon said composite image succession; wherein said composite image generator is composite of; means for calculating at least one dense correspondence to determine a displacement in at least a first dimension for each pixel in a first image for one of said imaging device collection members which would move each of said pixels to a most nearly corresponding pixel in a second image for at least one other of said imaging device collection members; and means for generating an interpolated image from each of at least two of said synchronized image collection members, wherein said interpolated image is comprised of an array of pixels.