US 12,254,634 B2
Panoramic video conference system and method
Kuo Chih Lo, New Taipei (TW); and Chih Hao Lin, New Taipei (TW)
Assigned to AmTRAN Technology Co., Ltd., New Taipei (TW)
Filed by AmTRAN Technology Co., Ltd., New Taipei (TW)
Filed on Apr. 10, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/658,653.
Claims priority of application No. 110149736 (TW), filed on Dec. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0215011 A1, Jul. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. G06T 7/12 (2017.01); G06T 7/194 (2017.01); G06T 7/90 (2017.01); G06T 11/40 (2006.01); G06V 10/25 (2022.01); G10L 25/78 (2013.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06T 7/12 (2017.01) [G06T 7/194 (2017.01); G06T 7/90 (2017.01); G06T 11/40 (2013.01); G06V 10/25 (2022.01); G10L 25/78 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
9. A panoramic video conference method, being adapted for use in a panoramic video conference system, the panoramic video conference system comprising a panoramic video generating apparatus and a control apparatus, and the panoramic video conference method is performed by the control apparatus and comprises following steps:
analyzing a panoramic video received from the panoramic video generating apparatus to identify a plurality of video objects in the panoramic video;
selecting a video object to be removed from the video objects based on a privacy mode;
removing a video corresponding to the video object to generate a blank area;
generating a background filling video according to a plurality of adjacent blocks of the video object being removed; and
filling the background filling video to the blank area to generate a panoramic conference video;
wherein the panoramic video conference system further comprises:
a microphone array, being connected to the control apparatus through a network connection, and being configured to sense a sound of a conference room to generate a sound signal; and
a display, being configured to play a remote conference video and a remote conference sound;
wherein the panoramic video conference method further comprises following steps:
receiving the sound signal from the microphone array;
determining a speech source based on the sound signal;
comparing a plurality of conference member features with the panoramic video corresponding to the speech source to determine whether the panoramic video corresponding to the speech source has a first conference member feature that matches the conference member features;
generating a focusing video corresponding to the speech source when it is determined that the panoramic video corresponding to the speech source has the first conference member feature;
generating the panoramic conference video based on the focusing video and the panoramic video;
generating an exclusion area based on a position of the display;
comparing the speech source with the exclusion area to determine whether the speech source comes from the exclusion area; and
wherein the focusing video corresponding to the speech source is not generated when the speech source comes from the exclusion area.