Methods, systems, and devices for presenting an audio difficulties user actuation target in an audio or video conference
AssigneeMotorola Mobility LLC
InventorsAlexandre Novaes Olivieri, Amit Kumar Agrawal
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Abstract
A conferencing system terminal device includes a display, an audio output, a user interface, a communication device, and one or more processors. The one or more processors present an audio difficulties user actuation target upon the display during an audio or video conference occurring across a network and concurrently with a presentation of conference content. Actuation of the audio difficulties user actuation target indicates that audio content associated with the audio or video conference being delivered by the audio output is impaired.
Claims20
A conferencing system terminal device, comprising:
- a display;
- an audio output;
- a user interface;
- a communication device;
- and
- one or more processors;
- the one or more processors presenting a plurality of audio difficulties user actuation targets upon the display during a video conference occurring across a network and concurrently with a presentation of conference content without overlapping or obscuring video feeds of each participant of the video conference, and with the plurality of audio difficulties user actuation targets arranged in a list with an icon presented adjacent to a name of the each participant on a one-to-one basis.
A method in a conferencing system, the method comprising:
- detecting, by one or more processors of a conferencing system terminal device, actuation of a audio difficulties user actuation target that is presented in a plurality of audio difficulties user actuation targets actuatable by each participant of a plurality of participants to indicate audio difficulties being presented on a display of the conferencing system terminal device during a video conference without obscuring a plurality of video feeds of the video conference being presented on the display of the conferencing system terminal device, and with the plurality of audio difficulties user actuation targets arranged in a list with an icon presented adjacent to a name of the each participant on a one-to-one basis;
- and
- transmitting, with a communication device operable with the one or more processors, an audio difficulties data communication across a network to an audio difficulties monitoring engine operating at an audio or video conferencing system server complex.
A conferencing system terminal device, comprising:
- a display;
- an audio output;
- a user interface;
- a communication device;
- and
- one or more processors;
- the one or more processors presenting:
- a plurality of video feeds depicting participants of a video conference during the video conference in a grid on the display;
- and
- a plurality of audio difficulties user actuation targets on the display during the video conference in a list without obscuring any video feed of the plurality of video feeds;
- wherein:
- each audio difficulties user actuation target of the plurality of audio difficulty user actuation targets is defined by an icon depicting one of an ear, a loudspeaker, a hazardous condition sign, or headphones;
- and
- the plurality of audio difficulties user actuation targets arranged in a list with the icon presented adjacent to a name of each participant on a one-to-one basis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.