US 11,153,465 B2Granted

System and method of processing video of a tileable wall

AssigneeDell Products L.P.

InventorsThanh T. Tran, Philip Seibert

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Abstract

In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, processes, and/or methods may receive first video streams, of a user, from respective first cameras, at respective first locations and construct, from the first video streams, a single video stream that includes forward-facing images of the user. The single video stream constructed from the first video streams may be provided to a network. One or more movements of the user may be tracked, and based on the tracking, a hand-off to second cameras may occur. The one or more systems, processes, and/or methods may receive second video streams, of the user, from respective second cameras, at respective second locations and construct, from the second video streams, the single video stream that includes forward-facing images of the user. The single video stream constructed from the second video streams may be provided to the network.

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Dependent claims

A system, comprising:

a processor;
and
a memory medium that is coupled to the processor and that includes instructions executable by the processor;
wherein as the processor executes the instructions, the system:
determine, at a first time, a first distance between a user and a camera system;
determine that the first distance between the user and the camera system is greater than a threshold distance and in response, capture an image of the user using a single camera of the camera system, wherein distances less than the threshold distance correspond to distorted images of the user when captured by a single camera of the camera system;
determine, at a second time, a second distance between the user and the camera system, the second distance less than the first distance;
determine that the second distance between the user and the camera system is less than the threshold distance, and in response, transition from the single camera to utilize a first plurality of cameras of the camera system, including:
receives a plurality of first video streams, each comprising respective images depicting the user, from a respective camera of the first plurality of cameras at respective ones of a plurality of first locations and having different viewing angles with respect to the user;
constructs, from multiple images in the plurality of first video streams, a single video stream comprising first forward-facing images in which the user is depicted as facing forward;
tracks a movement of the user from a first position proximate the plurality of first locations to a second position proximate a plurality of second locations;
receives, subsequent to tracking the movement of the user from the first position to the second position, a plurality of second video streams, each comprising respective images depicting the user, from a respective second plurality of cameras of the camera system at respective ones of the plurality of second locations and having different viewing angles with respect to the user;
and
constructs, from multiple images in the plurality of second video streams, second forward-facing images in the single video stream in which the user is depicted as facing forward.

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A method, comprising:

determining, at a first time, a first distance between a user and a camera system;
determining that the first distance between the user and the camera system is greater than a threshold distance, and in response, capture an image of the user using a single camera of the camera system, wherein distances less than the threshold distance correspond to distorted images of the user when captured by a single camera of the camera system;
determining, at a second time, a second distance between the user and the camera system, the second distance less than the first distance;
determining that the second distance between the user and the camera system is less than the threshold distance, and in response, transitioning from the single camera to utilizing a first plurality of cameras of the camera system, including:
receiving a plurality of first video streams, each comprising respective images depicting the user, from a respective camera of the first plurality of cameras at respective ones of a plurality of first locations and having different viewing angles with respect to the user;
constructing, from multiple images in the plurality of first video streams, a single video stream comprising first forward-facing images in which the user is depicted as facing forward;
tracking a movement of the user from a first position proximate the plurality of first locations to a second position proximate a plurality of second locations;
receiving, subsequent to tracking the movement of the user from the first position to the second position, a plurality of second video streams, each comprising respective images depicting the user, from a respective second plurality of cameras of the camera system at respective ones of the plurality of second locations and having different viewing angles with respect to the user;
and
constructing, from multiple images in the plurality of second video streams, second forward-facing images in the single video stream in which the user is depicted as facing forward.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.