Patent ID: 9083956
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A video capture device for capturing video to be transformed into 3D video, the video capture device comprising: a camera module for capturing a two-dimensional (2D) video stream; a location module for determining a location of the video capture device; an orientation module for determining an orientation of the video capture device; a processing module for associating additional information with each frame of the 2D video stream captured by the camera module, the additional information including the orientation of the video capture device and the location of the video capture device, a communication module for receiving at least one additional 2D video stream having appended additional information for each frame of the at least one additional 2D video stream from at least one other video capture device that is not under the control of the video capture device; and a three-dimensional (3D) video generation module for generating a 3D video based on the 2D video stream and the at least one additional 2D video stream, wherein the 3D video is generated based on a viewing angle for each of a plurality of video capture devices that is calculated according to where a denotes a distance between a first video capture devices and a particular object being filmed, b denotes a distance between a second video capture devices and the particular object being filmed, c denotes a distance between the first video capture device and the second video capture device, α denotes a viewing angle of the second video capture device, β denotes a viewing angle of the first video capture device, and γ denotes an angle formed by a line connecting the first video capture device to the particular object being filmed and a line connecting the second video capture device to the particular object being filmed.