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.

A device (100) includes a display (110) itself including pixel groups. A bottom and sides of each of the pixel groups are covered with non-reflective material. The pixel groups are electrically coupled together with transparent conductive interconnections. A camera (122) is located beneath the display and the camera is configured to sense light that passes through the display.

A shooting method applied to the electronic device including a display screen and a camera. The display screen includes a first polarizer and a second polarizer, and a liquid crystal is arranged between the first polarizer and the second polarizer. The method includes: adjusting an electrode voltage of the display screen as a target voltage value, where in a case that the electrode voltage of the display screen is the target voltage value, and a light transmittance of the display screen meets a preset condition; and acquiring a first image through the camera.

Among other things, a first video is captured of at least the eyes of a first person who is looking along a video capture axis. A second video of at least the eyes of a second person is presented, along a display axis. The video capture axis and the display axis are aligned along a common axis so that the first person can view the second video of at least the eyes of the second person along the common axis when the first video of the eyes of the first person is being captured along the common axis. Instructions are executed to maintain an eye contact video interaction session between the first person and the second person using the captured video and the presented video.

A virtual presence system includes a display having a structural matrix configured to arrange a plurality of spaced pixel elements. A plurality of spaced pixel elements collectively form an active visual area wherein an image is displayable. At least one image capture device is disposed within the active visual area for capturing an image. The system is able to sense the environment in front of the display and, in response to what is sensed, is able to change one or more attributes of a displayed image, or, is able to change the displayed image or a portion of the displayed image.

A virtual interview system including at least one job candidate device and at least one organization device in operable communication with a network. An application system is in operable communication with the network to transmit a plurality of questions to a user interface of the job candidate device. An artificial intelligence engine analyzes each response to the plurality of questions and assigns a point value based on the response, wherein each point value for each of the plurality of questions is totaled to determine if a threshold value is reached. The threshold value determines if the job candidate is permitted to schedule a virtual interview.

A webcam apparatus, having a display surface characterized by a display area, includes an image capture device characterized by an optical axis and a first footprint in a plane perpendicular to the optical axis; and an energy transfer device with a first portion coupled to the image capture device; and a second portion allowing attachment to an edge of a display screen. When attached, the image capture device and the first portion lie against and in contact with the display surface, or in a proximate and parallel plane. An optical axis characterizing the image capture device is aligned with a gaze direction of a user addressing a viewer via the captured images. The first portion of the energy transfer device is transparent at optical wavelengths, and has a second footprint in the plane perpendicular to the optical axis. The first and second footprints are small relative to the display area.

A display apparatus includes a display panel including a first display portion including, the first display portion including a first area and a second area alternately arranged in one direction, a first emission device being disposed in the first area and the second area being located adjacent to the first area and configured to transmit external light, an electronic component facing one surface of the display panel and arranged corresponding to at least the second area, and a transmittance control component between the display panel and the electronic component and configured to control transmittance of the second area.

An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit that receives data from a communication destination, an output unit that outputs the received data, a sensor that senses a first space in which the output unit is arranged, a transmission unit that transmits sensing data obtained by the sensing to the communication destination, and a control unit that performs control to present an event that is a cause of cognitive dissonance to the output unit, based on at least the sensing data of a user in the first space, when the user has the cognitive dissonance.

A method for generating alpha channel information related to a person, the method may include generating the alpha channel information related to the person by an alpha channel neural network; wherein the alpha channel machine learning process is trained using ground truth alpha channel information that is associated with background information; wherein the ground-truth alpha channel information is generated by: obtaining input images of the person; wherein each image comprises the person and an arbitrary background; repeating, for each input image of the input images, converting the input image, by a portrait matting predictor, to (a) a first colored background image that comprises the person and a background of a first color, and (b) a second colored background image that comprises the person and a background of a second color; wherein the first color differs from the second color.