Selective image broadcasting in a video conference
AssigneeAvaya Management L.P.
InventorsPushkar Yashavant Deole, Valentine C. Matula, Sandesh Chopdekar, Navin Daga
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Abstract
Video conferencing systems are popular means for remote parties to interact in real-time. A user may wish to emphasize certain visual elements of the video conference, for example, a company's logo or the contents of a whiteboard may be important to remain clearly seen by the viewers of the video conference. As elements are obscured, a previously captured image of the obscured visual element may be overlaid on top of the obscuring image to visual remove the obscuring object. Additionally, certain visual elements may be enhanced, such that a small visual element may appear larger or clearer within the video image.
Claims20
A system for presenting a modified video image, comprising:
- a camera;
- a processor;
- a network interface to a network;
- a data storage;
- and
- wherein the processor:
- receives a video image comprising a number of visual elements captured within a field of view of the camera wherein, at a first time, the video image captures a first element of the number of visual elements;
- accesses a record in the data storage comprising indicia of important visual elements;
- upon determining, at a second time after the first time, that the first element of the number of visual elements matches the record, accessing an enhancement operation associated with the first element;
- enhance the video image to produce an enhanced video image comprising the first element, as enhanced by the enhancement operation, and wherein the enhancement is not applied to an entirety of the video image and wherein the enhancement operation overlays the previously captured video image of the first element on top of an obscuring visual feature that obscures the first element;
- and
- transmit, via the network interface, the enhanced video image to at least one recipient device.
A method, comprising:
- receiving a video image comprising a number of visual elements captured within a field of view of a camera wherein, at a first time, the video image captures a first element of the number of visual elements;
- accessing a record in a data storage comprising indicia of important visual elements;
- upon determining, at a second time after the first time, that the first element of the number of visual elements matches the record, accessing an enhancement operation associated with the first element;
- enhancing the video image to produce an enhanced video image comprising the first element, as enhanced by the enhancement operation, and wherein the enhancement operation is not applied to an entirety of the video image;
- and
- transmitting, via a network interface to a network, the enhanced video image to at least one recipient device.
A video conferencing system, comprising:
- a communication interface to a camera;
- a processor;
- a network interface to a network;
- a data storage;
- and
- wherein the processor:
- receives, from the camera, a video image comprising a number of visual elements captured within a field of view of the camera wherein, at a first time, the video image captures a first element of the number of visual elements;
- accesses a record in the data storage comprising indicia of important visual elements;
- upon determining, at a second time after the first time, that the first element of the number of visual elements matches the record, accesses an enhancement operation associated with the first element;
- enhances the video image to produce an enhanced video image comprising the first element, as enhanced by the enhancement operation, and wherein the enhancement operation is not applied to an entirety of the video image;
- and
- transmits via the network interface, conference content to at least one recipient device, wherein the conference content comprises the enhanced video image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.