US 11,810,219 B2
Multi-user and multi-surrogate virtual encounters
Raymond C. Kurzweil, Newton, MA (US)
Assigned to Beyond Imagination Inc., Burbank, CA (US)
Filed by Beyond Imagination Inc., Burbank, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 2, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/086,776.
Application 17/086,776 is a continuation of application No. 16/283,954, filed on Feb. 25, 2019, granted, now 10,825,218.
Application 16/283,954 is a continuation of application No. 15/496,213, filed on Apr. 25, 2017, granted, now 10,223,821, issued on Mar. 5, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0097740 A1, Apr. 1, 2021
Int. Cl. G06T 11/60 (2006.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06V 20/10 (2022.01); G06V 20/20 (2022.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01); H04N 23/90 (2023.01)
CPC G06T 11/60 (2013.01) [G06F 3/01 (2013.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06V 20/10 (2022.01); G06V 20/20 (2022.01); G06V 40/103 (2022.01); H04N 23/90 (2023.01)] 16 Claims
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1. A virtual reality encounter system comprising,
a first surrogate that is mobile, the first surrogate supporting at least one first camera that captures image data from a first physical location in which the first surrogate is disposed to produce a first image signal;
a second surrogate that is mobile, the second surrogate supporting at least one second camera that captures second image data from the first physical location in which the second surrogate is disposed to produce a second image signal;
a computing system including a processor configured to:
receive the first image signal;
detect image data of the second surrogate in the first image signal;
replace the image data of the second surrogate, with image data of a user associated with the second surrogate in the first physical location to form a transformed image; and
a user device comprising a display and transducer, the user device disposed in the second location, with the display configured to receive and render on the display, the transformed image.