US 2015/0091891 A1Published application

System and method for non-holographic teleportation

AssigneeDumedia, Inc.

InventorsFazal Raheman, Ali Fazal Raheman

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Abstract

The present invention discloses a system and method for non-holographic virtual teleportation of one or more remote objects to a designated three-dimensional space around a user in realtime. This is achieved by using a plurality of participating teleportation terminals, located at geographically diverse locations, that capture the RGB and depth data of their respective environments, extract RGB images of target objects from their corresponding environment, and transmit the alpha channeled object images via Internet for integration into a single composite scene in which layers of computer graphics are added in the foreground and in the background. The invention thus creates a virtual 3D space around a user in which almost anything imaginable can be virtually teleported for user interaction. This invention has application in intuitive computing, perceptual computing, entertainment, gaming, virtual meetings, conferencing, gesture based interfaces, advertising, ecommerce, social networking, virtual training, education, so on and so forth.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method of virtually teleporting non-holographically, in real time, a plurality of objects or users located at diverse geographical locations, into a customized, seamless 3D environment, using a plurality of teleportation terminals, wherein the method comprises of the steps of:

a) a host teleportation terminal initiating connection via Internet means to one or more remote teleportation terminals participating in a teleportation session;
b) capturing each remote scene at plurality of participating terminals comprising of at least one remote object in a remote background and at least one host object in host background, by means of RGB sensor of a teleporting device coupled to an internet enabled computing device;
c) extracting each of the plurality of RGB device-captured object images from their corresponding remote backgrounds by means of a plurality of teleporting devices, coupled to their corresponding internet enabled computing devices;
d) transmitting each of the extracted RGB-captured remote object images along with their corresponding alpha channeled background for compositing the final teleportation scene or environment;
e) inserting each of the transmitted alpha-channeled object images into the alpha channeled background areas of the host environment;
f) inserting one or more background layers of retrieved computer-generated content to produce an integrated composite teleported scene or environment that includes all the objects participating in the teleportation session;
g) inserting one or more foreground layer of retrieved computer-generated content in the integrated composite teleported scene or environment;
h) compositing the final teleported scene by manipulating each element of the scene, so that each of the plurality of object images is overlaid distinct from each other on its pre-defined location in reference to the foreground and background layers in the teleported scene or environment;
i) displaying in real time the final integrated composite teleported scene or environment on a display panel at each of the participating terminals.

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A system of virtually teleporting a plurality of remote objects from plurality of remote teleportation terminals in real time into a customized, seamless 3D environment of a host object's host teleportation terminal, by means of a plurality of teleporting devices coupled to a plurality of internet enabled computing devices, comprising of:

a) Remote Object Connection Module (ROOM) which is a set of computer programs that is used to logically connect one or more remote objects via internet means;
b) Object Scene Capture Module (OSCM), which is a set of computer programs that receive, as input from RGB sensor, the image of object scene in real time from the teleporting device;
c) Object Extraction Module (OEM) which is a set of computer programs that deploy either 2D pixel recognition and differentiation techniques for foreground segmentation, or, 3D depth sensors for foreground-background segmentation to extract object with alpha channel from background of the captured object scene in real time;
d) Remote Object Transmission Module (ROTM) which is a set of computer programs that transmit in real time, to a host object terminal, the extracted image of a remote object along with associated parameters, that include but not limited to depth, texture, color, alpha channel;
e) Object Insertion Module (OIM) which is a set of computer programs that integrates, places and composes in real time one or more remote teleported objects within alpha channeled areas of extracted host object image scene;
f) Background Layer Insertion Module (BLIM), which is a set of computer programs that inserts a pre-defined background layer of computer graphics to the composition of teleported scene in real time;
g) Foreground Layer Insertion Module (FLIM), which is a set of computer programs that inserts a pre-defined foreground layer of computer graphics to the composition of teleported scene in real time;
h) Teleported Scene Compositing Module (TSCM), which is a set of computer programs that integrates and fine tunes in real time the composition of host and remote objects with background and foreground layers of computer graphics to produce a live composition of teleported environment;
i) Teleported Composite Scene Display Module (TCSDM) which is a set of computer programs that display in real time the integrated, composite teleported scene on display devices of each of the participating teleportation terminals;
j) Central Processing Unit (CPU), which analyzes and executes the operations of ROCM, OSCM, OEM, ROTM, OIM, FLIM, BLIM, TSBLIM, TCSM, TCSDM.

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Application: 14/040,729Filed 30 Sep 2013
Published: 2 Apr 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

H04N 7/157
Conference systems: defining a virtual conference space and using avatars or agents
A63G 31/16
Amusement arrangements: creating illusions of travel
G06F 3/011
Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer: arrangements for interaction with the…
G06F 3/017
Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer: gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a…

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