Patent ID: 8736659

Claim:
A three-dimensional (3D) video communication method, the method comprising: receiving video information of at least two session parties, wherein the video information of at least one session party is 3D video information; and processing the video information received from the at least two session parties according to state information of the at least two session parties and display capabilities of a terminal; and synthesizing the 3D video information or two-dimensional (2D) video information for displaying, wherein the steps of processing and synthesizing comprise: if the display capabilities of the terminal support the 3D display and the state information of each session party indicates that the display modes of the session parties are not all the 3D display mode, synthesizing single-viewpoint images of a same type in the video information of all the session parties into a frame of single-viewpoint image, synthesizing depth/parallax images of the session parties displayed in a 3D mode into a frame of depth/parallax image, and synthesizing the frame of single-viewpoint image and the frame of depth/parallax image into the 3D video streams, and synthesizing the video information of all the session parties displayed in a 2D mode into the 2D video streams; and sending the synthesized video streams to the corresponding terminal respectively.