# US 9,872,007 B2 · Controlling light sources of a directional backlight > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 9,872,007 B2 - Document ID: US9872007B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/199,106 - Filed: 2016-06-30 - Published: 2016-10-27 - Granted: 2018-01-16 - Earliest claimed: 2013-06-17 - Assignees: RealD Spark, LLC - Applicants: RealD Spark, LLC - Inventors: Graham J. Woodgate; Michael G. Robinson; Adrian J. Hill - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9872007B2 ## CPC - G06T 7/73: using feature-based methods - H04N 7/144: {camera and display on the same optical axis, e.g. optically multiplexing the camera and display for eye to eye contact} - H04N 7/147: {Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals (selecting H04Q)} - H04N 7/15: Conference systems - H04N 13/122: Improving the three-dimensional [3D] impression of stereoscopic images by modifying image signal contents, e.g. by filtering or adding monoscopic depth cues (H04N13/128 takes precedence) - H04N 13/128: Adjusting depth or disparity - H04N 13/239: using two two-dimensional [2D] image sensors having a relative position equal to or related to the interocular distance (H04N13/243 takes precedence) - H04N 13/302: for viewing without the aid of special glasses, i.e. using autostereoscopic displays - G06T 2207/10012: Stereo images - G06T 2207/30201: Face - H04N 2007/145: {Handheld terminals} - H04N 2213/001: Constructional or mechanical details - G06T: IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION ## Abstract Teleconferencing is performed between two telecommunication devices having a display device and a stereoscopic pair of cameras positioned outside opposed sides of the display device at the same level partway along those sides. The separation between the centers of the cameras is in a range having a lower limit of 60 mm and an upper limit of 110 mm to improve the perceived roundness in a displayed stereoscopic image of a head. In captured stereo images that are video images, a head is segmented and the segmented backgrounds are replaced by replacement images that have a lower degree of perceived stereoscopic depth to compensate for non-linear depth perception in the displayed stereo images. Images are shifted vertically to position an eye-line of a detected face at the level of the stereoscopic pair of cameras of the telecommunication device where the images are displayed, improving the naturalness of the displayed image. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A teleconferencing method for a source telecommunication device and a destination telecommunication device, the method comprising: transmitting delivery images captured by one or both of a stereoscopic pair of cameras of the source telecommunication device from the source telecommunication device to the destination telecommunication device over a telecommunication network, the stereoscopic pair of cameras positioned outside opposed sides of a display device of the source telecommunication device at the same level partway along the opposed sides; transmitting return images captured by at least one camera of the destination telecommunication device from the destination telecommunication device to the source telecommunication device over the telecommunication network; detecting a face in the return images; shifting the return images vertically to position an eye-line of the detected face at the level of the stereoscopic pair of cameras of the source telecommunication device in a predetermined orientation in which the vertical sides of the return images are aligned with said opposed sides of the display device; and displaying the shifted return images on the display device of the source telecommunication device in said predetermined orientation. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) A teleconferencing method according to claim 1, wherein said step of transmitting delivery images comprises transmitting stereo delivery images captured by both of the stereoscopic pair of cameras of the source telecommunication device. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) A teleconferencing method according to claim 1, wherein the destination telecommunication device comprises a second stereoscopic pair of cameras positioned outside opposed sides of a display device of the destination telecommunication device. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) A teleconferencing method according to claim 3, wherein said step of transmitting return images comprises transmitting stereo return images captured by both of the second stereoscopic pair of cameras of the destination telecommunication device, and displaying the shifted return images comprises displaying the shifted return images on the display device of the source telecommunication device autostereoscopically. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) A teleconferencing method according to claim 3, further comprising: detecting a second face in the delivery images; shifting the delivery images to position an eye-line of the detected second face at the level of the second stereoscopic pair of cameras of the destination telecommunication device in a second predetermined orientation in which the vertical sides of the delivery images are aligned with said opposed sides of the display device of the destination telecommunication device; and displaying the shifted delivery images on the display device of the destination telecommunication device in said second predetermined orientation. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) A teleconferencing method according to claim 1, further comprising displaying the delivery images on a display device of the destination telecommunication device. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) A teleconferencing method according to claim 1, wherein the display device of the source telecommunication device is rectangular, having one pair of opposed sides that is longer than the other pair of opposed sides, said stereoscopic pair of cameras of the source telecommunication device being positioned outside the longer opposed sides of the display device. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) A teleconferencing method according to claim 7, wherein said stereoscopic pair of cameras of the source telecommunication device are positioned at the same level less than half-way along the longer opposed sides below the side of the display device of the source telecommunication device that is the upper side with respect to said predetermined orientation. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) A teleconferencing method according to claim 1, further comprising shifting the return images horizontally to position the center line of the detected face centrally in the predetermined orientation. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) A teleconferencing method according to claim 1, wherein detecting a face in the return images comprises detecting features of the face including eye features, said eye-line of the detected face defined relative to the detected eye features. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) A teleconferencing method according to claim 1, wherein the images are video images. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) A teleconferencing method according to claim 1, wherein detecting faces and shifting the return images is performed in the source telecommunication device. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) A teleconferencing method according to claim 1, wherein shifting the return images is performed in the destination telecommunication device. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) A teleconferencing method according to claim 1, wherein the return images are transmitted through a server in the telecommunication network between the source telecommunication device and the destination telecommunication device, the steps of detecting faces and shifting the return images being performed in the server. ### Claim 15 A source telecommunication device for providing teleconferencing, comprising: a display device; a stereoscopic pair of cameras positioned outside opposed sides of the display device at the same level partway along those sides, the source telecommunication device being arranged to transmit delivery images captured by one or both of the stereoscopic pair of cameras of the source telecommunication device to a destination telecommunication device over a telecommunication network, and to receive return images captured by at least one camera of the destination telecommunication device over the telecommunication network; and an image processing section arranged to detect a face in the return images and to shift the return images to position an eye-line of the detected face at the level of the stereoscopic pair of cameras in a predetermined orientation in which the vertical sides of the return images are aligned with said opposed sides of the display device, the source telecommunication device being arranged to display the shifted return images on the display device in the predetermined orientation. ### Claim 16 A destination telecommunication device for providing teleconferencing, comprising: a display device of the destination telecommunication device; at least one camera, the destination telecommunication device being arranged to transmit return images captured by the at least one camera to a source telecommunication device that comprises a display device of the source telecommunication device and a stereoscopic pair of cameras positioned outside opposed sides of the display device at the same level partway along those sides, over a telecommunication network, and to receive delivery images captured by the source telecommunication device over the telecommunication network; and a processing section arranged to shift the return images to position an eye-line of a detected face in the return images at the level of the stereoscopic pair of cameras in a predetermined orientation in which the vertical sides of the return images are aligned with said opposed sides of the display device of the source telecommunication device.