US Patent Issued to Dell Products on April 26 for "Virtual Ring Camera" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 28 -- United States Patent no. 7,932,919, issued on April 26, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Virtual Ring Camera" was invented by Carlton A. Andrews (Austin, Texas) and Roy W. Stedman (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract released by the U.

S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for a virtual omni-directional camera array, comprising a video control system (VCS) coupled to two or more co-located portable or stationary information processing systems, each enabled with a video camera and microphone, to provide a composite video view to remote videoconference participants. Audio streams are captured and selectively mixed to produce a virtual array microphone as a clue to selectively switch or combine the video streams from individual cameras. The VCS selects and controls predetermined subsets of video and audio streams from the co-located video camera and microphone-enabled computers to create a composite video view, which is then conveyed to one or more similarly-enabled remote computers over a broadband network (e.g., the Internet). Manual overrides allow participants or a videoconference operator to select predetermined video streams as the primary video view of the videoconference."

The patent was filed on April 21, 2006, under Application No. 11/408,876.

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