User experience for conferencing with a touch screen display
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsNathan J. Fish, Robert Williams, Charlie W. Case, Chris M. Haverty, Peter R. Oehler, Michael C. Hilsdale
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Abstract
A video conference system includes two cameras placed on opposite sides of a touch screen display. Multimedia processing is performed in order to automatically switch between the cameras and to display items on the touch screen display based on user position or user interactions with the system.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method of controlling a conferencing system with a touch sensitive display device and a plurality of user input/output (user I/O) mechanisms, the method comprising:
- detecting a user's presence;
- powering up only a subset of the touch sensitive display device and the user I/O mechanisms, the user I/O mechanisms including first and second cameras mounted on longitudinally opposite sides of the touch sensitive display device;
- detecting a user interaction relative to the conferencing system;
- and
- performing an action in the conferencing system based on the user interaction.
A computer-implemented method of controlling displays on a conferencing system, comprising:
- detecting a user position relative to a touch sensitive display screen in the conferencing system;
- identifying display locations on the touch sensitive display screen, for displayed items, based on the detected user position;
- and
- displaying the displayed items based on the identified display locations.
A computer-implemented method of selecting one of a first camera and a second camera for providing outgoing video in a conferencing system, comprising:
- automatically detecting a user location relative to a touch sensitive display screen in the conferencing system and relative to the first and second cameras, the first and second cameras being mounted on horizontally opposite sides of the touch sensitive display screen;
- automatically detecting a plurality of sensed parameters;
- and
- automatically selecting one of the first and second cameras to provide the outgoing video based on the user location and the plurality of sensed parameters.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.