Apparatus and method for controlling eye-to-eye contact function

摘要

Disclosed are an apparatus and a method of controlling an eye-to-eye contact function, which provide a natural eye-to-eye contact by controlling an eye-to-eye contact function based on gaze information about a local participant and position information about a remote participant on a screen when providing the eye-to-eye contact function by using an image combination method and the like in a teleconference system, thereby improving absorption to a teleconference.

主权项

1. A method of controlling a teleconference for controlling an eye-to-eye contact function of a teleconference system, comprising:
generating gaze information about a local participant from an image obtained by a camera in real time; generating positon information about eyes or a face of a remote participant displayed on a screen of a display device for a teleconference from telepresence data received from a teleconference system of the remote participant through a network in real time; and determining whether to apply an eye-to-eye contact function to the image obtained by the camera by using the gaze information about the local participant and the position information about the eyes or the face of the remote participant, wherein the eye-to-eye contact function is not applied when the local participant looks at a point away from the remote participant, using eye tracing for the local participant and the remote participant, wherein the generating of the position information about the eyes or the face of the remote participant includes generating coordinates relative to the camera or a predetermined reference point as the position information about the eyes or the face of the remote participant, and wherein the determining whether to apply the eye-to-eye contact function includes determining to apply the eye-to-eye contact function when the local participant looks in a direction of a remote participant display region on the screen of the display device according to the gaze information about the local participant, and the eyes of the remote participant face a front side according to the position information about the eyes or the face of the remote participant.