Immersive telepresence anywhere

摘要

A conferencing peripheral for use with a mobile device or laptop or desktop computer can include one or more projectors, cameras, microphones, and speakers. Such a device can work with the mobile device to provide a higher quality conferencing experience than has been provided to date by projecting a substantially full size, high resolution, image of conference participants onto a screen or wall and by providing microphones, speakers, and sufficient audio processing to provide high fidelity audio as part of the conferencing experience. The peripheral may be configured to use the voice and/or data network of the mobile device or may include its own internal network interface.

主权项

1. An immersive telepresence conferencing peripheral comprising:
a housing incorporating one or more cameras, pico-projectors, speakers, and microphones, a power interface, and at least one conferencing device interface configured to operatively couple the conferencing peripheral to a secondary device running conferencing software; wherein the conferencing peripheral is controllable by the conferencing software to:
operate the one or more cameras and microphones to capture audio and video of one or more near-end conference participants for communication to one or more far-end conference participants via a media conference established by the conferencing software on the secondary device;operate the one or more speakers to deliver audio of one or more far-end conference participants received via the media conference; andoperate the one or more pico-projectors to display images of the one or more far-end conference participants received via the media conference such that the one or more far-end conference participants are rendered at substantially true size on a display surface located at a reasonable social distance from the one or more near-end conference participants.