User-selected multi-view videoconferencing
AssigneeCisco Technology, Inc.
InventorsHui-Ling Lu, Raul Alejandro Casas
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Abstract
Presented herein are systems and methods for generating a multi-view focused video stream. The methods involve obtaining at least one video stream of a first participant in an online video communication session between at least the first participant at a first endpoint and a second participant at a second endpoint; determining a bounding region of at least one element in the video stream; generating a focused video stream from the video stream that includes a focused view of the at least one element within the bounding region; and presenting the focused video stream on the second endpoint to at least the second participant.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- obtaining a video stream of a first participant in an online video communication session between at least the first participant at a first endpoint and a second participant at a second endpoint;
- retrieving view selection preferences from at least one previous communication session;
- determining a bounding region of at least one element in the video stream based on the view selection preferences;
- generating a focused video stream from the video stream that includes a focused view of the at least one element within the bounding region based on the view selection preferences;
- and
- presenting the focused video stream on the second endpoint to at least the second participant.
An apparatus comprising:
- a memory;
- a network interface configured to enable network communication;
- and
- a processor, wherein the processor is configured to perform operations comprising:
- obtaining a video stream of a first participant in an online video communication session between at least the first participant at a first endpoint and a second participant at a second endpoint;
- retrieving view selection preferences from at least one previous communication session;
- determining a bounding region of at least one element in the video stream based on the view selection preferences;
- generating a focused video stream from the video stream that includes a focused view of the at least one element within the bounding region based on the view selection preferences;
- and
- presenting the focused video stream on the second endpoint to at least the second participant.
One or more non-transitory computer readable storage media encoded with instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to execute a method comprising:
- obtaining a video stream of a first participant in an online video communication session between at least the first participant at a first endpoint and a second participant at a second endpoint;
- retrieving view selection preferences from at least one previous communication session;
- determining a bounding region of at least one element in the video stream based on the view selection preferences;
- generating a focused video stream from the video stream that includes a focused view of the at least one element within the bounding region based on the view selection preferences;
- and
- presenting the focused video stream on the second endpoint to at least the second participant.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.