| CPC H04L 12/1813 (2013.01) [H04N 23/90 (2023.01)] | 13 Claims |
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1. A video conferencing system comprising:
a semi-circular screen configured and arranged to display a virtual workspace including remote participants and to extend at least partly around a local participant;
an array of cameras configured and arranged to record video of a local participant, each of the cameras having a unique field-of-view of the local participant; and
controller circuitry configured and arranged to
assign positions to each of the remote participants and the local participant within a virtual meeting space,
receive the recorded video of the local participant from the cameras within the array, wherein the cameras are adjacent with respect to one another and have an overlapping field-of-view with respect to the local participant,
generate a stereoscopic video from the recorded video,
transmit to each of the remote participants the stereoscopic video of the local participant associated with the unique field-of-view of each of the respective remote participants relative to the local participant,
receive remote participant video from each of the respective remote participants, where the remote participant video received from each remote participant is recorded from a unique field-of-view associated with the local participant relative to each of the remote participants, and
generate a composite representation of the remote participant videos for display within the virtual workspace where each of the remote participants appear with orientations relative to the local participant based upon their assigned positions in the virtual meeting space.
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