Collaboration environments and views
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsAnkit Tandon, William Verthein, Senthil Velayutham, Ross Cutler
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Abstract
Provided herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating collaboration environments. In at least one implementation, a presentation of an initial view of a collaboration scene is presented within a collaboration environment. A portion of the collaboration scene is identified that corresponds to an object of interest selected for separate viewing. A separate presentation within the collaboration environment is initiated related to the portion of the scene corresponding to the object of interest.
Claims20
One or more computer readable media having stored thereon program instructions for facilitating a collaboration environment that, when executed by a computing system, direct the computing system to at least:
- initiate a presentation, within the collaboration environment, of an initial view of a collaboration scene captured in a video stream;
- identify a portion of the collaboration scene corresponding to an object of interest in the collaboration scene selected for separate viewing;
- and
- initiate a separate presentation, within the collaboration environment, of a separate view comprising the portion of the collaboration scene corresponding to the object of interest.
A method for facilitating a collaboration environment, the method comprising:
- presenting within the collaboration environment an initial view of a collaboration scene captured in a video stream;
- identifying a portion of the collaboration scene corresponding to an object of interest in the collaboration scene selected for separate viewing;
- presenting within the collaboration environment a separate view comprising the portion of the collaboration scene corresponding to the object of interest;
- modifying the initial view of the collaboration scene to a modified view;
- and
- presenting the modified view of the collaboration environment simultaneously with the separate view of the collaboration environment.
One or more computer readable media having stored thereon program instructions executable by one or more computing systems to facilitate a collaboration environment, the program instructions comprising:
- server program instructions that, when executed by a server computing system, direct the server computing system to at least:
- transfer for delivery to a client device video information for presentation within the collaboration environment, the video information comprising a collaboration scene captured by a collaboration capture device and a remote scene captured by a remote capture device;
- identify a portion of the collaboration scene corresponding to an object of interest identified by the client device for separate viewing within the collaboration environment;
- and
- transfer for delivery to the client device separate video information comprising the portion of the collaboration scene corresponding to the object of interest.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.