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US 11,108,972 B2Granted
Virtual three dimensional video creation and management system and method
AssigneeHSNi, LLC
InventorJohn McDevitt
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Abstract
A method and system is provided for the creation, management, and distribution of two dimensional video content that appears to a viewer as having a third dimension of depth. The system includes a camera array with multiple cameras at respective different positions that coordinates the off-center rotating motion of apertures that are part of diaphragms in the camera lens systems. The resulting images from each camera in the array are stitched together to create a larger content field and only a portion is displayed at any one time.
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A system for generating video content having an appearance of three dimensional depth, the system comprising:
- a camera array including a plurality of cameras arranged at different positions relative to each other and each camera being configured to capture video image data of a portion of a viewing field of the camera array;
- electronic memory configured to store the video image data captured by each camera of the camera array and settings information of each camera that indicate at least the different positions of each camera and timing data for the capture of the video image data by each camera;
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- a processor configured to:
- create synchronized combined video content of the viewing field of the camera array by using the settings information of each camera including the timing data for the captured video image data to combine and synchronize the video image data captured by each of the plurality of cameras,
- generate a field of view from the synchronized combined video content based on the captured video image data of the viewing field with a center section of the field of view having a sharp focus and a peripheral section of the field of view having a soft focus, and
- configure optical settings of the respective one or more cameras in the camera array that correspond to the center section of the field of view to provide the sharp focus for the field of view, and
- configure optical settings of the respective one or more cameras in the camera array that correspond to the peripheral section of the field of view to provide the soft focus for the field of view;
- configure the respective one or more cameras in the camera array that correspond to the center section of the field of view by adjusting at least one of a direction of rotation or a speed of rotation of at least one aperture of each of the respective one or more cameras to configure respective optical settings of each of the respective one or more cameras to provide the sharp focus for the field of view;
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- configure the respective one or more cameras in the camera array that correspond to the peripheral section of the field of view by adjusting at least one of a direction of rotation or a speed of rotation of the at least one aperture to configure respective optical settings of each of the respective one or more cameras to provide the soft focus for the field of view.
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A method for generating video content having an appearance of three dimensional depth, the method comprising:
- capturing, by a camera array including a plurality of cameras arranged at different positions relative to each other, video image data of a portion of a viewing field of the camera array;
- storing the video image data captured by each camera of the camera array and settings information of each camera that indicate at least the different positions of each camera and timing data for capturing the video image data by each camera;
- creating synchronized combined video content of the viewing field of the camera array by using the settings information of each camera including the timing data for the captured video image data to combine and synchronize the video image data captured by each of the plurality of cameras;
- generating a field of view from the synchronized combined video content based on the captured video image data of the viewing field with a center section of the field of view having a sharp focus and a peripheral section of the field of view having a soft focus;
- configuring optical settings of the respective one or more cameras in the camera array that correspond to the center section of the field of view to provide the sharp focus for the field of view,
- configuring optical settings of the respective one or more cameras in the camera array that correspond to the peripheral section of the field of view to provide the soft focus for the field of view;
- configuring the respective one or more cameras in the camera array that correspond to the center section of the field of view by adjusting at least one of a direction of rotation or a speed of rotation of the at least one aperture to configure respective optical settings of each of the respective one or more cameras to provide the sharp focus for the field of view;
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- configuring the respective one or more cameras in the camera array that correspond to the peripheral section of the field of view by adjusting at least one of a direction of rotation or a speed of rotation of the at least one aperture to configure respective optical settings of each of the respective one or more cameras to provide the soft focus for the field of view.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.