Remote communication apparatus and method of estimating a distance between an imaging device and a user image-captured

Patent №

US 8,525,870

Granted

2013-09-03

Filed 2010

Owner

OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO., LTD.

Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12801562

A remote communication apparatus for receiving the image of a remote user captured by an imaging device to show the image to another user includes a zoom controller for controlling a zoom ratio defining the angle of view of the imaging device, and an estimator for estimating a distance between the imaging device and the remote user on the basis of the zoom ratio of the imaging device.

AI classification

Vision0.53
Knowledge representation0.06
Planning0.01
Natural language0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00
AI hardware0.00

Ownership

OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO., LTD.

assignment · 245800194

Assignors

TOKUMITSU, MASAYUKI

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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