US 10,951,947 B2Granted

Dynamic configuration of a user interface for bringing focus to target events

AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC

InventorsJason Thomas Faulkner, Sonu Arora, Santhosh Kumar Misro, Joshua George, Kevin Daniel Morrison

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Abstract

The disclosed system implements techniques to identify activity in which attendees to a communication session likely have a greater interest. Prior to commencement of a communication session or during the communication session, the techniques enable a list of attendees to a communication session to be designated as a group for which detected activity has a priority with respect to being displayed. The designated list of attendees is a subset of a total number of attendees to the communication session. The system monitors streams associated with individual attendees on the list to detect an occurrence of a preset target event. The system configures a portion of a graphical user interface of the communication session to accentuate the stream that includes the occurrence of the preset target event.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system comprising:

one or more processing units;
and
a computer-readable medium having encoded thereon computer-executable instructions to cause the one or more processing units to:
cause a graphical user interface to be displayed, the graphical user interface populated with video data;
receive user input that designates a person;
identify a video feed that contains the designated person, the video feed being one of a plurality of video feeds;
monitor the video feed for preset target events associated with the designated person;
detect, based on the monitoring of the video feed, an occurrence of a preset target event associated with the designated person;
and
responsive to detecting the occurrence of the preset target event, automatically configure at least a portion of the graphical user interface to accentuate the occurrence of the preset target event associated with the designated person, wherein the automatic configuration of the portion of the graphical user interface includes:
adding a display area that includes the video feed containing the designated person to the portion of the graphical user interface;
or
increasing a size of the designated person contained in the video feed which is displayed in the portion of the graphical user interface.

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A system comprising:

means for causing a graphical user interface to be displayed, the graphical user interface populated with video data;
means for receiving user input that designates a person;
means for identifying a video feed that contains the designated person, the video feed being one of a plurality of video feeds;
means for monitoring the video feed for preset target events associated with the designated person;
means for detecting, based on the monitoring of the video feed, an occurrence of a preset target event associated with the designated person;
and
means for automatically configuring at least a portion of the graphical user interface to accentuate the occurrence of the preset target event associated with the designated person, wherein the automatic configuration of the portion of the graphical user interface includes:
adding a display area that includes the video feed containing the designated person to the portion of the graphical user interface;
or
increasing a size of the designated person contained in the video feed which is displayed in the portion of the graphical user interface.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/021,860Filed 28 Jun 2018 · us provisional application
Priority: 17 Jan 2018
Published: US 2019/0222892 A118 Jul 2019
Granted: 16 Mar 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

H04N 21/44213
Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times…
G06V 20/41
In video content: higher-level, semantic clustering, classification or understanding of video scenes, e.g. detection, labelling or Markovian…
G06V 40/172
Human faces, e.g. facial parts, sketches or expressions: classification, e.g. identification
H04N 7/147
Between two video terminals, e.g. videophone: communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication,…