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US6889120:
Mutually-immersive mobile telepresence with gaze and eye contact preservation
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US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Jouppi, Norman Paul; Palo Alto, CA, United States of America
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Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX, United States of America
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| Published / Filed: |
2005-05-03
/ 2002-12-14
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| Application Number: |
US2002000319911
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G05B 15/00;
G05B 19/00;
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IPC-7:
G05B 15/00;
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| ECLA Code: |
G06F3/01B;
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| U.S. Class: |
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700/259;
348/159;
700/245;
700/246;
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700/262;
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700/245;
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348/159;
982/103;
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700/245,246,250,251,253,257-259,262
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382/103
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| Abstract: |
A method and system are provided for user and participant telepresencing including viewing a user from a plurality of views to obtain an image of a user, communicating the image of the user to a surrogate, and displaying the image of the user on the surrogate with eye contact between the user and the participant preserved.
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Black, Thomas G.; Marc, McDieunel
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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
The present application contains subject matter related to copending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/285,757 filed Oct. 31, 2002, by Norman Paul Jouppi and Vaughan Stanton Thomas entitled “Telepresence System with Automatic User-Surrogate Height Matching”. The related application is assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. and is incorporated herein by reference thereto.
The present application also contains subject matter related to copending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/285,726 filed Oct. 31, 2002, by Norman Paul Jouppi and Vaughan Stanton Thomas entitled “Mutually-Immersive Mobile Telepresence System with User Rotation and Surrogate Translation”. The related application is assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. and is incorporated herein by reference thereto.
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First Claim:
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1. A method for user and participant telepresencing comprising: viewing the user from a plurality of views to obtain a plurality of user's images; communicating the plurality of user's images to a surrogate; and displaying the plurality of user's images on surrogate's displays with gaze of the user preserved.
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Jouppi, First steps towards mutually-immersive mobile telepresence, 2002, Internet, pp. 1-10.*
Kusuoka et al., Dual ecologies of robot as communication media: Thoughts on coordinating orientations and projectability, 2004, Internet, pp. 183-190.*
Jouppi et al., A first generation mutually-immersive mobile telepresence surrogate with automatic backtracking, 2004, IEEE, pp. 1670-1675.*
HP Labs: News, BiReality Audio-Video Demo, First steps toward a mutually immersive mobile telepresence, 2002, Internet, pp. 1-2.*
Braunl et al., Improv and EyeBot real-time vision on-board mobile robots, 1997, IEEE, pp. 131-135.*
Lobo et al., Integration of inertial information with vision towards robot autonomy, 1997, IEEE, pp. 825-830.*
U.S. Appl. No. 10/285,757, Jouppi et al.
U.S. Appl. No. 10/285,726, Jouppi et al.
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