Two-way video conferencing system
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorCynthia Wessling
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Abstract
A video conferencing device that includes a camera and display system captures video of local participants and displays incoming video feeds from remote locations. For example, incoming video feeds of the remote participants may be displayed on an outward-facing circular screen mounted on a central pedestal. One or more cameras are also mounted on the pedestal in order to capture video of the local participants. The incoming video feed can be arranged or organized in various ways on the display based in part on the quantity of incoming feeds and/or the needs of the conference-room participants.
Claims21
An apparatus for video conferencing, comprising:
- a camera for capturing video frames of local participants in a video conference;
- and a cylindrical display that is physically coupled to the camera for displaying a plurality of different incoming video feeds wherein each one of the plurality of different incoming video feeds are displayed on a surface of the cylindrical display in sequential order one after the another, the plurality of different incoming video feeds being associated with and received from different remote cameras capturing video frames of different remote participants.
A system for video conferencing, comprising:
- a computing device having a processor and associated memory, the computing device operative to receive video images of local participants captured by a camera;
- receive a plurality of different incoming video feeds from different remote cameras capturing video images of different remote participants;
- and
- display each one of the plurality of different incoming video feeds in a sequential manner on a surface of a cylindrical display.
A method for interacting with a video conferencing device
- that includes a cylindrical display and a camera, comprising:
- receiving video frames from the camera;
- receiving a plurality of different incoming video feeds from different external locations;
- displaying each of the different incoming video feeds associated with and received from the different external locations in sequential order one after the another on the cylindrical display of the video conferencing device;
- and
- rotating the cylindrical display of the video conferencing device to allow a viewing user to view all of the different video feeds from the different external locations displayed on the surface of the cylindrical display as the cylindrical display is rotated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.