SELECTIVELY COMBINING A PLURALITY OF VIDEO FEEDS FOR A GROUP COMMUNICATION SESSION

摘要

In an embodiment, a communications device (170; 200; 400) receives (615A, 620A, 625A; 600D; 600E, 605E, 610E; 920, 925, 930) a plurality of video input feeds from a plurality of video capturing devices that provide different perspectives of a given visual subject of interest. The communications device receives (615A, 620A, 625A; 600D; 600E, 605E, 610E; 920, 925, 930), for each of the received plurality of video input feeds, indications of (i) a location an associated video capturing device, (ii) an orientation of the associated video capturing device and (iii) a format of the received video input feed. The communications device selects (630A; 605D; 630E; 820A; 820B; 820C; 935) a set of the received plurality of video input feeds, interlaces (635A; 600B, 605B; 600C, 605C; 610D; 620E, 625E, 630E; 830A; 835B; 830C; 940) the selected video input feeds into a video output feed that conforms to a target format and transmits (640A; 615D; 635E; 640E; 645E; 945) the video output feed to a set of target video presentation devices. The communications device can correspond to either a remote server (170; 400) or a user equipment (UE) (200; 400) that belongs to, or is in communication with, the plurality of video capturing devices.