	US 7,333,156 B2
	Sequential colour visual telepresence system
Gilles Primeau, Pierrefonds (Canada)
Assigned to Canadian Space Agency, Saint-Hubert, Quebec (Canada)
Filed on Mar. 11, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/384,622.
Application 10/384622 is a continuation of application No. 09/383070, filed on Aug. 26, 1999, abandoned.
Prior Publication US 2003/0164900 A1, Sep. 04, 2003
Int. Cl. H04N 9/12 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 348—742 [348/268; 348/269; 348/739]

15 Claims

1. An anthropomorphic visual telepresence system comprising:

a) a head tracker for sensing movement of an operator's head;

b) a sequential colour camera for capturing a colour image as a sequence of colour component images;

c) a servomechanism coupled to said camera and responsive to signals from said head tracker to cause said camera to track movements of the operator's head;

d) said sequential colour camera generating a sequential output signal representing each of said captured component colour images in a sequence of time intervals;

e) said sequential colour camera inserting in each said sequence a synchronization signal to ensure synchronization and sequence alignment of said component colour images captured by said sequential colour camera;

f) a head-mountable sequential colour display; and

g) a communications link for carrying said sequential output signal from said sequential colour camera to said head-mountable sequential colour display whereby said sequential output signal is applied as an input to said sequential colour display;

h) said sequential colour display being responsive to said sequential output signal and said synchronization signal from said sequential colour camera to display said colour image as said sequence of said colour component images.