Patent ID: 8570358

Claim:
A method of automated wireless three-dimensional (3D) video conferencing via a tunerless television device, comprising: automatically establishing, via a wireless communication interface of the tunerless television device, a 3D video conference with a wireless device capable of 3D video conferencing, where in being programmed to automatically establishing, the processor is programmed to: receive, at the tunerless television device, a text message from the wireless device; determine whether the text message is from a user within a contact list associated with the tunerless television device that is authorized for automated 3D video conferencing; and automatically establish the 3D video conference in response to determining that the text message is from the user within the contact list associated with the tunerless television device that is authorized for automated 3D video conferencing; receiving, via a camera interface module, a first and a second two-dimensional (2D) video stream from a first and a second video camera associated with the tunerless television device; creating, via a 3D video offload processing module operatively coupled to the camera interface module, a merged 3D video stream from the first 2D video stream and the second 2D video stream, where a computation that produces the 3D video stream is carried out in a user space application or a hardware module; and sending the merged 3D video stream to the wireless device via the wireless communication interface.