System and method for user video chats with progressively clearer images
AssigneeZoosk, Inc.
InventorsEric R. Barnett, Behzad Behrouzi, Charles E. Gotlieb
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Abstract
A system and method provides a video chat capability where the video portion of the chat is initially impaired, but gets progressively clearer, either as time elapses, or as the users speak or participate with relevant information.
Claims18
A method of displaying a chat session, comprising:
- enabling communications for the chat session between a first user and a second user, the communications of the chat session comprising a video component in each of at least two directions of the chat session;
- providing an obscuring effect to the video component of the chat session to obscure the video component in at least one of the two directions of the chat session;
- detecting in succession a plurality of triggers;
- and
- removing some of the obscuring effect from the video component in at least one of the two directions upon the detecting of at least one of the plurality of triggers, so that the video component in the at least one direction of the chat session becomes progressively clearer and clearer.
A system for displaying a chat session, comprising:
- a chat manager having an input for receiving an identifier of one of a plurality of second users, the chat manager for enabling via an input/output communications of the chat session between a first user and the second user, the communications of the chat session comprising a video component in each of at least two directions of the chat session, and for providing an obscuring effect to the video component of the chat session to obscure the video component in at least one of the two directions of the chat session;
- a trigger monitor for detecting in succession a plurality of triggers and providing at an output an indication of each of the plurality of triggers;
- and
- wherein the chat manager input is additionally coupled to the trigger monitor for receiving the indication of each of the plurality of triggers, and the chat manager is additionally for removing some of the obscuring effect from the video component in at least one of the two directions in response to receiving each of at least one of the plurality of the plurality of triggers, so that the video component in the at least one direction of the chat session becomes progressively clearer and clearer.
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer useable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein for displaying a chat session, the computer program product comprising computer readable program code devices configured to cause a computer system to:
- enable communications for the chat session between a first user and a second user, the communications of the chat session comprising a video component in each of at least two directions of the chat session;
- provide an obscuring effect to the video component of the chat session to obscure the video component in at least one of the two directions of the chat session;
- detect in succession a plurality of triggers;
- and
- remove some of the obscuring effect from the video component in at least one of the two directions upon the detecting of at least one of the plurality of triggers, so that the video component in the at least one direction of the chat session becomes progressively clearer and clearer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.