Telepresence system with automatic preservation of user head size
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorNorman Paul Jouppi
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Abstract
A method and system for mutually immersive telepresencing are provided. A user is viewed at a user's location to provide a user's image. The size of the user's head is determined in the user's image. A surrogate having a surrogate's face display about the size of the user's head is provided. The user's image is processed based on the size of the surrogate's face display to provide an about life-size image of the user's head. The about life-size image is displayed on the surrogate's face display.
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A method for mutually-immersive telepresencing comprising:
- viewing a user at a user's location to provide a user's image;
- determining the size of the user's head in the user's image;
- providing a surrogate having a surrogate's face display about the size of the user's head;
- processing the user's image based on the size of the surrogate's face display to provide an about life-size image of the user's head;
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- displaying the about life-size image on the surrogate's face display.
A method for mutually-immersive telepresencing comprising:
- viewing a user at a user's location to provide a user's image;
- determining the size of the user's head in the user's image using a distance of the user's head from where the user is viewed and a width of the user's head in the image;
- providing a surrogate having a surrogate's face display about the size of the user's head;
- processing the user's image based on the size of the surrogate's face display to provide an about life-size image of the user's head;
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- displaying the about life-size image on the surrogate's face display.
A system for mutually-immersive telepresencing comprising:
- a camera set for viewing a user at a user's location to provide a user's image;
- a computer for determining the size of the user's head in the user's image;
- a surrogate having a surrogate's face display about the size of the user's head;
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- a processor for processing the user's image based on the size of the surrogate's face display to provide an about life-size image of the user's head and for displaying the about life-size image on the surrogate's face display.
A system for mutually-immersive telepresencing comprising:
- a camera set for viewing a user at a user's location to provide a user's image;
- a computer for determining the size of the user's head in the user's image using a distance of the user's head in the image from where the user is viewed and a width of the user's head in the image;
- a surrogate having a surrogate's face display about the size of the user's head;
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- a processor for processing the user's image based on the size of the surrogate's face display to provide an about life-size image of the user's head and for displaying the about life-size image on the surrogate's face display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.