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Telepresence-system-with-automatic-user-surrogate-height-matching

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Details

Inventors: Jouppi, Norman Paul; Thomas, Vaughan Stanton;
Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, TX)
Primary Examiner: Black; Thomas G.
Assistant Examiner: Marc; McDieunel
Attorney, Agent or Firm:

A method and system for mutually-immersive telepresencing includes determining a height of a user and monitoring a height of an image of the user on an adjustable height surrogate. The method includes transmitting the height of the user and the image of the user, and moving the height of the image of the user on the adjustable height surrogate towards the height of the user.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The invention claimed is: 1.
A method for mutually-immersive telepresencing comprising: determining a height of a user; monitoring a height of an image of a user on an adjustable height surrogate; transmitting the height of the user and the image of the user; and moving the height of the image of the user on the adjustable height surrogate towards the height of the user.
2.
The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein: determining the height of a user includes: using the head of the user.
3.
The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein: determining the height of the user includes: using a camera; calculating how far the user is from the camera, and calculating the height of the user based on how far the user is from the camera and the height of the user relative to a height of the camera.
4.
The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein: determining the height of the user includes: using a pair of cameras; and processing images from the pair of cameras to locate the head of the user.
5.
The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein: determining the height of the user includes: introducing a height factor to modify the height of the image of the user on the surrogate.
6.
A method for mutually-immersive telepresencing comprising: determining a height of a user using a camera system; monitoring a height of an image of a user on an adjustable height surrogate using a sensor; transmitting the height of the user and the image of the user over a high-speed network; and matching the height of the image of the user on the adjustable height surrogate and the height of the user.
7.
The method as claimed in claim 6 wherein: determining the height of a user includes: using the head of the user to establish the height of the user.
8.
The method as claimed in claim 6 wherein: determining the height of the user includes: using the camera system with a pair of cameras; triangulating how far the user is from the pair of cameras, and triangulating the height of the user based on how far the user is from the pair of cameras and the height of the user relative to an average height of the pair of cameras

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