Abstract: A user device within a communication architecture, the user device comprising: an image capture device configured to determine image data and intrinsic/extrinsic capture device data for the creation of a video channel defining a shared scene; a surface reconstruction entity configured to determine surface reconstruction data associated with the image data from the image capture device; a video channel configured to encode and packetize the image data and intrinsic/extrinsic capture device data; a surface reconstruction channel configured to encode and packetize the surface reconstruction data; a transmitter configured to transmit the video and surface reconstruction channel packets; and a bandwidth controller configured to control the bandwidth allocated to the video channel and the surface reconstruction channel.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 30, 2016
Date of Patent:
January 10, 2017
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licenisng, LLC
Inventors:
Juri Reitel, Martin Ellis, Andrei Birjukov, ZhiCheng Miao, Ryan S. Menezes