US Patent 9684953 Method and system for image processing in video conferencing

A method for image processing in video conferencing, for correcting the gaze of an interlocutor in an image or a sequence of images captured by at least one real camera, comprises the steps ofthe at least one real camera acquiring an original image of the interlocutor;synthesizing a corrected view of the interlocutor's face as seen by a virtual camera, the virtual camera being located on the interlocutor's line of sight and oriented towards the interlocutor;transferring the corrected view of the interlocutor's face from the synthesized view into the original image, thereby generating a final image;at least one of displaying the final image and transmitting the final image.