Configured transparent communication terminals

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  "publication_number": "US10841535B2",
  "country": "US",
  "kind": "B2",
  "title": "Configured transparent communication terminals",
  "abstract": "Enterprise communication display systems enable life-like images for videoconferencing and entertainment productions. Life-like images appear in a 3D environment where imaged people are visible through specially configured see-through displays. Imaged people can be viewed amongst a reflected foreground. Methods for enterprise-wide deployments for corporate, healthcare, education, theater which includes cinema and government communications, including hotel properties and a property management system are shown. Direct projection see-through screen configurations are created that eliminate unwanted secondary images in the room, conceal exposed projector lenses, reduce lens flare, makes practical multi-use room installations, images conferees among a room environment, enables touch screen interactivity, and utilizes extreme and other types of short throw projectors to reduce cost and bulk of common throw projectors. Of these transparent screens inventive configurations of substantially invisible mesh screens for both front and rear projection are described.",
  "claims": [
    "1. A transparent organic light emitting diode (OLED) display terminal comprising: a transparent flexible OLED display with a viewing side, said display having a left edge, a right edge, bottom edge and a top edge; and an image content imaged on the viewing side of the display and viewed by a user positioned on the viewing side, the user viewing the content on the display while simultaneously looking through the display to a rear environment opposite the viewing side, wherein said content is an image of a distant videoconferencing user against a black background which is imaged as transparent by said transparent display causing the user to view the distant videoconferencing user as part of the rear environment.",
    "2. The terminal of claim 1, further comprising an image of the user against a black background captured by a camera and transmitted live to a second transparent OLED display and viewed by the distant videoconferencing user as part of a distant rear environment.",
    "3. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the transparent OLED display terminal is at least one of a home office terminal, an office terminal, a cubicle, a meeting room terminal, a medical terminal, a real estate transaction terminal, an ATM terminal, an educational terminal, a concierge terminal, a sales terminal, a gaming terminal, an informational terminal, an advertising terminal, and a subject matter expert terminal.",
    "4. A transparent organic light emitting diode (OLED) display terminal comprising: a transparent OLED display with a viewing side, said display having a left edge, a right edge and a top edge; an electronic housing bar connected to said transparent OLED display forming a bottom edge thereof; a structure supporting the electronic housing bar, said structure concealing the bar from a user positioned on the viewing side; and an image content imaged on said display and viewed by a user positioned on the viewing side, the user viewing the content on the display and looking simultaneously through the display to a rear environment opposite the viewing side, wherein said content is a video object against a black background which is imaged as transparent by said transparent display causing the user to view said object as part of the rear environment.",
    "5. The terminal of claim 4, wherein the transparent OLED display terminal is at least one of a home office terminal, an office terminal, a cubicle a meeting room terminal, a medical terminal, a real estate financial transaction terminal, an ATM terminal, an educational terminal, a concierge terminal, a sales terminal, a gaming terminal, an informational terminal, an advertising terminal, and a subject matter expert terminal.",
    "6. A transparent organic light emitting diode (OLED) display terminal comprising: a transparent OLED display with a viewing side, said display having a left edge, a right edge and a top edge; an electronic housing bar connected to said transparent OLED display forming a bottom edge thereof; a structure supporting the electronic housing bar; and an image content imaged on said display and viewed by a user positioned on the viewing side, the user viewing the content on the display and looking simultaneously through the display to a rear environment opposite the viewing side, wherein said content is an image of a distant videoconferencing user against a black background which is imaged as transparent by said transparent display causing the user to view the distant videoconferencing user as part of the rear environment."
  ],
  "description_excerpt": "Not Applicable\n\nThe present disclosure relates generally to communication and entertainment display devices that are see-through and with 3D settings, and specifically videoconferencing display devices applicable to personal computing, group collaboration, and the theatrical stage.\n\nVideoconferencing is now an application on personal computing devices for over a billion people. The experience enables audio and video communication, but still lacks the sense of being with the person in the same physical space. The experience is further frustrated by a complete negation of simulating the way people communicate in the same room and in person. The parallax problem still frustrates most all videoconferencing from small handheld phones to large multi-screen telepresence rooms. That problem is a camera mounted away from the conferee's eyes on the screen so people appear to be looking away rather than at the people they intend to converse with. Though numerous technologies have been proposed to resolve this problem the art of using beamsplitters remains the most commercially viable way to align the camera with people's eyes on screen and maintain perfect display image quality and perfect camera image capturing. Numerous advances in reducing the appearance in size of these systems and improving user acceptance is an area of significant research and invention. Further, improved ways to increase the eye contact between conferees in retrofit camera systems and with a variety of display systems is a primary embodiment of the present invention.",
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  "inventors": [
    "Steve H. McNelley",
    "Jeffrey S. Machtig"
  ],
  "filing_date": "2018-10-03",
  "publication_date": "2020-11-17",
  "grant_date": "2020-11-17",
  "priority_date": "2014-09-25",
  "application_number": "US-201816151097-A",
  "family_id": "66327792",
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