Auroch -- a Virtual Conference System
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This is the description of a virtual conferencing system powered by a clustered bsd-based operating system. (patent
pending). The presentation of the visual data is provided,
through a large screen display, or by individual monitors.
Auroch -- a Virtual Conferencing System
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Auroch -- A Virtual Conferencing System.
The
conferencing system is based on a Beowulf clustered operating system,
of up to 128 nodes. The presentation of the visual data is provided,
through a large screen display, or by individual monitors.
The
large screen display, is either a bendable screen display, or a screen
onto which a moving image is projected. The screen onto which the image
is projected, is convex, and is wider than the seating arrangement.
The
individual monitors are encased within the table to be positioned, in
front of the large screen; or in a table, in the middle of the
conference room, for a version with no large screen.
The
visual data, for the live-stream version, is captured, in such a
manner, as to include additional depth of field information, such as
visual anchoring information, to give a human brain the sense, that the
image displayed has 3-D features.
The visual anchoring
information is made-up of peripheral add-ons, to the main image, that
are computationally smoothed to give the participant the illusion that
the scene has 3-D elements in it.
The computer running the
conferencing system, comes in two versions. The first, displays, 3-D
enhanced, live-streaming data to the large screen, and/or individual
monitors. The second version uses graphic routines to render avatars of
the participants onto the monitor screens. The avatars are generated
using pre-computed frames of the top portion of a person. Photos of the
participants are scanned and digitised into the system; and, are then
used to fill in the blanks, in the pre-packaged frames, using
extrapolation routines. The only visual information that is transmitted,
is
the few bytes of data, indicating what the person, in speaking control
of the conference, is doing. The capturing camera contains software,
that scans every frame of the visual stream; and, reduces each change
to a few tenth of bytes of data, that are then transmitted to the peer
system.
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