When Samsung rolled out its creepy AR Emoji, many assumed it was just the company’s answer to Apple’s Animoji. But Samsung was granted a patent last week that could indicate a whole other reason it rolled out the AR Emoji: to combat bandwidth issues with live video.
Back in 2013, Samsung foresaw that there would continue to be bandwidth issues with live video in the near future, and applied for a patent that would let users video chat with each other using 3D models of their faces, as spotted by PatentlyMobile.
The patent states, “Existing video communication systems typically require high bandwidth and are inherently high latency as entire image sequences need to be generated and compressed before transmitting the signal to the another...
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https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/23/17270758/samsung-patent-3d-avatar-video-calls
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https://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2018/04/samsung-patent-suggests-video-chatting.html
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