Video conference
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsTom Malzbender, Ian N Robinson, Irwin E Sobel
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Abstract
A method to present participants in a video conference including determining a participant distance and aligning a region of interest on the participant using one or more depth cameras, creating a cropped video stream of the participant by cropping the region of interest from a video stream of the participant, and arranging the cropped video stream of the participant with additional cropped video streams of additional participants for display in the video conference.
Claims15
A method to present participants in a video conference comprising:
- determining a participant distance and aligning a region of interest on the participant using one or more depth cameras;
- creating a cropped video stream of the participant by cropping the region of interest from a video stream of the participant;
- replacing background pixels in the region of interest with common background pixels;
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- arranging the cropped video stream of the participant with additional cropped video streams of additional participants for display in the video conference.
A machine comprising:
- a processor;
- a depth camera to determine a distance of a participant from the depth camera by measuring distances of pixels corresponding to the participant;
- a display device to display a video conference which includes a cropped video stream of the participant;
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- a video conference application executable by the processor from computer readable memory and to create the cropped video stream by aligning and cropping a region of interest from a video stream of the participant, wherein the cropped video stream includes a static common background.
A computer-readable program in a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising:
- a video conference application to instruct a depth camera to identify distances of foreground pixels included in a pixel map that correspond to a participant;
- wherein the video conference application is further to modify a size of a region of interest and align the region of interest with a head portion of the participant;
- wherein the video conference application is additionally to crop the region of interest from a video stream of the participant and arrange the cropped video stream with additional cropped video streams of additional participants in a video conference, wherein the cropped video stream includes the foreground pixels and does not include background pixels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.