# US 2018/0027211 A1 · Immersive telepresence anywhere

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- Number: US 2018/0027211 A1
- Document ID: US20180027211A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 15/670,546
- Filed: 2017-08-07
- Published: 2018-01-25
- Earliest claimed: 2013-03-14
- Assignees: Polycom, Inc.
- Applicants: Polycom, Inc.
- Inventors: Gopal Paripally; Stephen Botzko
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20180027211A1

## CPC

- H04N 7/142: {Constructional details of the terminal equipment, e.g. arrangements of the camera and the display}
- H04N 7/147: {Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals (selecting H04Q)}
- H04N 7/148: {Interfacing a video terminal to a particular transmission medium, e.g. ISDN}
- H04N 7/15: Conference systems
- H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

## Abstract

A portable immersive telepresence conferencing system which can capture audio data and video data and communicate at least some of the captured data to at least one remote endpoint via a network interface, receive image data and audio data from at least one remote source via the network interface and render a depiction of at least one object, which is substantially the same size of the actual object being shown.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium
storing instructions executable by the at least one processor, the instructions comprising instructions to:
receive audio data from at least one remote source using a network interface;
emit at least some of the received audio data using at least one speaker;
receive imaging data from the at least one remote source using the network interface; and
display, using at least one display unit, at least one depiction of at least one object, such that the size of the depiction
substantially corresponds to the true size of the depicted object, based, at least in part, on at least some of the received imaging data.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions to receive audio data from at least one remote source using a network interface comprise instructions to:
receive audio data from least one remote endpoint using the network interface.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions to display, using at least one display unit, at least one depiction of at least one object, comprise instructions to:
display, using at least one projector, at least one depiction of at least one object.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 3, wherein the instructions to display, using at least one projector, at least one depiction of at least one object comprise instructions to:
display, using at least one pico-projector, at least one depiction of at least one object.

### Claim 5 (depends on 3)

The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 3, wherein the instructions to display, using at least one display unit, at least one depiction of at least one object, such that the size of the depiction substantially corresponds to the true size of the depicted object, comprise instructions to:
display, using at least one display unit, at least one depiction of at least one object, such that the size of the depiction corresponds to at least 50% of the true size of the depicted object.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 5, wherein the instructions to display, using at least one display unit, at least one depiction of at least one object, such that the size of the depiction corresponds to at least 50% of the true size of the depicted object, comprise instructions to:
display the at least one depiction on a surface, at least a portion of which is five to ten feet distant from the at least one projector.

### Claim 7 (depends on 5)

The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 5, wherein the instructions further comprise instructions to:
determine, using at least one sensor, a distance from the at least one projector to the surface; and
automatically scale the displayed depiction of the depicted object.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the depicted object comprises a far-end conference participant at the remote source, the depiction of the conference participant forms an angle with the projector, and the size of the angle is less than or equal to ten degrees.

### Claim 9 (depends on 8)

The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the size of the angle is less than or equal to five degrees.

### Claim 10

A method of conducting an immersive teleconference over a network, the method comprising:
receiving audio data from at least one remote source using a network interface;
emitting at least some of the received audio data using at least one speaker;
receiving imaging data from the at least one remote source using the network interface; and
displaying, using at least one display unit, at least one depiction of at least one object, such that the size of the depiction substantially corresponds to the true size of the depicted object, based, at least in part, on at least some of the received imaging data.

### Claim 11 (depends on 10)

The method of claim 10, wherein receiving audio data from at least one remote source using a network interface comprises:
receiving audio data from least one remote endpoint using the network interface.

### Claim 12 (depends on 10)

The method of claim 10, wherein displaying, using at least one display unit, at least one depiction of at least one object, comprises:
displaying, using at least one projector, at least one depiction of at least one object.

### Claim 13 (depends on 12)

The method of claim 12, wherein displaying, using at least one projector, at least one depiction of at least one object, comprises:
displaying, using at least one pico-projector, at least one depiction of at least one object.

### Claim 14 (depends on 12)

The method of claim 12, wherein displaying, using at least one display unit, at least one depiction of at least one object, such that the size of the depiction substantially corresponds to the true size of the depicted object, comprises:
displaying, using at least one display unit, at least one depiction of at least one object, such that the size of the depiction corresponds to at least 50% of the true size of the depicted object.

### Claim 15 (depends on 14)

The method of claim 14, wherein displaying, using at least one display unit, at least one depiction of at least one object, such that the size of the depiction corresponds to at least 50% of the true size of the depicted object, comprises:
displaying the at least one depiction on a surface, at least a portion of which is five to ten feet distant from the at least one projector.

### Claim 16 (depends on 5)

The method of claim 5, further comprising:
determining, using at least one sensor, a distance from the at least one projector to the surface; and
automatically scaling the displayed depiction of the depicted object.

### Claim 17 (depends on 16)

The method of claim 16, wherein the depicted object comprises a far-end conference participant at the remote endpoint, the depiction of the conference participant forms an angle with the projector, and the size of the angle is less than or equal to ten degrees.

### Claim 18 (depends on 17)

The method of claim 17, wherein the size of the angle is less than or equal to five degrees.