Viewing windows for video streams

A system comprising:

• a mobile video capture device having a field of view, wherein the field of view moves over time due to movement of the mobile video capture device;
• at least one sensor which detects motion of a person that carries the mobile video capture device, the at least one sensor determines an acceleration of the head of the person;
• a control circuit which receives a video stream from the mobile video capture device and determines at least one viewing window within the video stream that dampens motion of the video capture device caused by motion of the person when the motion of the person is greater than a threshold and does not dampen the motion when the motion of the person is less than the threshold, the viewing window includes only a portion of the field of view of the mobile video capture device, the portion of the field of view is kept constant in the viewing window when dampening the motion, wherein the determining at least one viewing window within the video stream that dampens motion of the video capture device includes only dampening the motion of the video capture device if the acceleration of the person's head is greater than a threshold;
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• a communication circuit that provides the viewing window to a remote display device in accordance with the placing of the viewing window in the video stream.

A method comprising:

• transmitting at least a portion of a 3D video stream from a mobile video capture device having a field of view to a remote display device, the 3D video stream having a right stream with successive video frames and a left stream with successive video frames, the field of view moves over time due to movement of the mobile video capture device;
• accessing movement data that describes movement of a first person that carries the mobile video capture device, including determining an acceleration of the head of the person;
• positioning a first viewing window in each frame of the right stream and a second viewing window in each frame of the left stream based on the movement data to compensate for motion of the mobile video capture device due to the movement of the first person, including moving the first and second viewing windows to dampen motion of the mobile video capture device caused by the movement of the first person if the movement of the first person is greater than a threshold and not moving the first and second viewing windows to dampen the motion of the mobile video capture device caused by the movement of the first person if the movement of the first person is less than the threshold, the first and second viewing windows each include only a portion of the field of view of the mobile video capture device, the portion of the field of view is kept constant in the first and second viewing windows when dampening the motion, wherein the positioning a first viewing window in each frame of the right stream and a second viewing window in each frame of the left stream includes only dampening the movement of the mobile video capture device if the acceleration of the head of the person is greater than a threshold;
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• displaying the first and second viewing windows on the remote display device.