FAQ
What was the challenge?
This is a photo of our meeting room.
The feedback we got was that especially the people sitting in the back are shown much too small.
The next photo shows what the microphone-based camera control is capable of as soon as someone speaks for a longer time.
The camera zooms in on the person and shows an image similar to a single person in front of a laptop.
Our room is about 8 x 6 metres. It is equipped with a Sennheiser ceiling microphone and a Panasonic PTZ camera, as shown in the next picture.
The idea was to collect the camera data from the existing Crestron media control system, which otherwise controls AV and lighting, and use it to call up preset camera presets.
How is such a system planned and implemented?
In this sketch you can see a conference table for seven people. Two cameras are installed here. The left camera shows the people on the right and at the back of the table, the right camera shows the people on the left of the table. Camera presets have been created, each showing one person, and an additional preset for a long shot, which is called up in a dialogue situation, for example.Parallel to the camera presets, a multi-window processor is also switched. For this we need three presets, full screen left and right and a SideBySide for the wide shot in the dialogue situation.
This is defined in the planning. The camera presets are created during commissioning with the web interface of the cameras.
Here's another picture:
It shows the user interface we use during set-up. In the left part we see live camera data horizontal and vertical angle as well as level, and the parameters with which we set the camera movement. In the middle part we define the zones for which we want to call presets. In the example, there were seven. On the right are the elements that the user will later be able to operate.
Here is an example of a user interface.
The user can switch between automatic and manual operation. In manual mode, he can call up the presets and control the camera manually. In automatic mode, the detected preset is displayed.