Patent ID: 8890922

Claim:
A video communication site, comprising: at least two local video cameras, configured to direct at least two local user parts, and shoot at least two channels of local video images of the local user parts; an apparatus for local shooting, stitching, and fusing, configured to fuse the shot at least two channels of local video images of the local user parts according to a fusion parameter among first video processing parameters to generate a panoramic video image; and encode the panoramic video image into a video code stream, and transmit the video code stream to a video communication site at a remote end; a local display fusing apparatus, configured to obtain at least two channels of video data by decoding a video code stream received from the remote end, fuse the obtained at least two channels of video data according to a fusion parameter among second video processing parameters, and output the fused at least two channels of video data to at least two local display apparatuses; and the at least two local display apparatuses are configured to display the at least two channels of video data fused by the local display fusing apparatus, wherein: a shooting area of the at least two local video cameras is a union of shooting ranges of the at least two local video cameras, and the shooting area of the at least two local video cameras covers the at least two local user parts, the at least two local video cameras are co-optical-center video cameras; and each of the at least two local display apparatuses comprises a projector and a projection screen or displays, and each of the at least two local display apparatuses is a projector and a projection screen, a position of the projection screen is arranged by using a point at a midline position of an edge of a conference table as the center of a circle, and one of the co-optical-center video cameras is at a midline position specified by an arc length of the projection screen.