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AssigneesKoninklijke KPN N.V., Nederlanddse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO
InventorsHans Maarten Stokking, Martin Prins
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A system and method are provided for determining a size of a virtual object in a virtual environment. The virtual object may represent an object in physical space. The system and method may obtain image data of the object from a camera, obtain camera metadata indicative of an angle of view of the camera, estimate an object distance between the object and the camera, and estimate a physical size of the object in physical space by determining an image size of the object in the image data, and determining a relation between the image size and the physical size of the object on the basis of the camera metadata and the object distance. Accordingly, the size of the virtual object in the virtual environment may be determined in accordance with the physical size of the object. Virtual objects may thus be given realistic relative sizes in the virtual environment. A further advantage may be that there is no need for a calibrated system of multiple cameras and a calibrated rendering environment.
A method for determining a size of a virtual object in a virtual environment, the virtual object representing an object in physical space, comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising object size metadata associated with image data of an object, wherein the image data is obtained from a camera, and wherein the object size metadata comprises:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising object size metadata defining a size of a virtual object in a virtual environment, wherein the virtual object represents an object in physical space, and wherein the size of the virtual object in the virtual environment is in accordance with a physical size of the object as determined from image data of the object and camera metadata.
A system configured to generate object size metadata associated with a virtual object in a virtual environment, the virtual object representing an object in physical space, the system comprising:
A network entity being a server for hosting a virtual environment or a rendering device for rendering the virtual environment, the virtual environment comprising a virtual object, the virtual object representing an object in physical space, the network entity comprising:
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