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AssigneeCisco Technology, Inc.
InventorsNorma Lovhaugen, Torkel Steffen Mellingen, Eamonn Shaw
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A computer-implemented interface for a local telepresence video conferencing facility, pre-assigns displays at the local telepresence video conferencing facility to respective video images from remote telepresence video conference facilities such that respective video images from the remote telepresence video conference facilities will be displayed on corresponding displays at the local telepresence video conferencing facility once communications connections are made. A controller pre-assigns the displays according to control commands from a tactile input device prior to establishing the communication connections with the remote telepresence video conference facilities. A touchscreen display presents avatars of remote conference participants to illustrate pre-assignments of displays to particular remote telepresence video conference facilities prior to the communication connections being made.
A computer-implemented interface for a local telepresence video conferencing facility that communicates with remote telepresence video conferencing facilities each including a plurality of cameras and a plurality of displays, said computer-implemented interface comprising:
A computer-implemented method for pre-assigning displays of a local telepresence video conferencing facility with video images of remote telepresence video conferencing facilities, each of the local and remote telepresence video conferencing facilities including a plurality of cameras and a plurality of displays, said method comprising:
A non-transitory computer program product having instructions that when executed by a processor perform a method that pre-assigns displays of a local telepresence video conferencing facility with video images of remote telepresence video conferencing facilities, each of the local and remote telepresence video conferencing facilities including a plurality of cameras and a plurality of displays, said method comprising:
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Between two video terminals, e.g. videophone: communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication,…
For the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a…:…
Using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures: by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the…
Conference systems: multipoint control units therefor
About 4 years 1 month of term left · ends 16 Nov 2030 (estimated)
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a computer-processor based method and system for creating a dynamic interactive graphical user interface (GUI) for a videoconferencing system, method, and a computer program product having telepresence features that visually presents how a video layout of a multi-screen video conference will be experienced by the users prior to the initiation of the telepresence videoconference.
2. Description of the Related Art
The invention will be better understood from reading the description which follows and from examining the accompanying figures. These are provided solely as nonlimiting examples of the invention. In the drawings:
FIG. 1 is an illustration of a telepresence videoconferencing setup according to an embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 2 illustrates the graphical user interface (GUI) of the control system according to the present invention;
Reference will now be made in detail to the present preferred embodiments of the invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. Wherever possible, the same reference characters will be used throughout the drawings to refer to the same or like parts.
FIG. 1 shows a local telepresence video conferencing facility used by local participants (A1 to A6), which provides the local participants a feeling of actually being present in the same meeting-room as the remote participants (B1 to B6) that are shown on the respective displays (e.g., flat panel high resolution displays) 1, 2 and 3. As will be discussed in more detail, the users are provided with a tactile input device having a touchscreen display 4 (sometimes referred to as a combo display), which is mounted at an angle with respect to an upper surface of the table 4A on which they are mounted. The touchscreen displays 4 provide a tactile mechanism by which the local participants can provide input to the GUI. Each of the respective display screens 1, 2, and 3 has at least one camera associated therewith, as shown. For example, the leftmost and rightmost displays have one camera positioned at the their top middle portions, while the center display screen has two cameras position on the top. It should be noted that the center display screen could also be used with a single camera positioned thereon.
In FIG. 2, the graphical user interface (GUI) 100 is presented on the touchpanel display 4 (FIG. 1) in its nominal state when no meeting has yet been set up, but a speed-dial 5 menu is selected. A corresponding GUI image is presented in FIG. 12 with the left replica display 41, center replica display 42, right replica display 43, speed dial 5, keypad 6, phone book 7, and available contact field icons 8 shown. FIG. 15 is similar but shows the keypad selected for dialing. Selecting the phonebook 7 is also available as a selectable option, where a more complete listing of contacts is saved in memory.