Method and Apparatus for Synthesized Video Stream
AssigneeSET Industries Corporation
InventorsMark Thomas, Abhijit Limaye, Dean Seniff, Jiahao Li
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Abstract
A synthesized, advertisement-based, video stream is generated first by receiving a video stream essentially consisting of a representative image of a person, a video stream comprising a place, and a video stream comprising an advertisement, and then combining the video stream essentially consisting of the representative image of the person with the video stream comprising the place and with the video stream comprising the advertisement into the synthesized, advertisement-based, video stream for transmission to an end-user device via which to display the synthesized, advertisement-based, video stream.
Claims13
A method for providing a synthesized, advertisement-based, video stream of a virtual scene, comprising:
- receiving a plurality of digital images or video streams (hereinafter a “plurality of video streams”) each essentially consisting of a representative image of a person;
- receiving a plurality of video streams each comprising a place;
- receiving a plurality of video streams each comprising an advertisement;
- selecting, from the received plurality of video streams each comprising a place, a video stream comprising a place;
- selecting, from the received plurality of video streams each comprising an advertisement, a video stream comprising an advertisement;
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- combining the plurality of video streams each essentially consisting of the representative image of the person with the selected video stream comprising the place and with the selected video stream comprising the advertisement into the synthesized, advertisement-based, video stream of the virtual scene for transmission to an end-user device via which to display the synthesized, advertisement-based, video stream of the virtual scene.
A method for providing advertising to video conference participants participating in a video conference stream, comprising:
- receiving a plurality of digital images or video streams (hereinafter a “plurality of video streams”) of video conference participants;
- extracting a representative portion of a video stream of each of the video conference participants from the plurality of video streams of the video conference participants;
- receiving a plurality of video streams of virtual places;
- receiving a plurality of video streams of advertisements;
- selecting one or more of the plurality of video streams of advertisements to display in one of the plurality of video streams of virtual places;
- selecting one of the plurality of video streams of the virtual places in which to display the representative portion of the video stream of each of the video conference participants, and in which to display the selected one or more of the plurality of video streams of advertisements;
- combining into a synthesized, advertising-based, video conference stream, the representative portion of the video stream of each of the video conference participants with the selected one of the plurality of video streams of the virtual places and with the selected one or more of the plurality of video streams of the advertisements in such a manner as to display the representative portion of each of the video conference participants in a first location of the selected one of the plurality of video streams of the virtual places, and to display the selected one or more of the plurality of video streams of advertisements in a second location of the selected one of the plurality of video streams of virtual places;
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- transmitting the synthesized, advertising-based, video conference stream to end-user devices for display to the video conference participants.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.