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US 8,803,991 B2Granted
Snapshot capture in video stream
AssigneeCisco Technology, Inc.
InventorPraveen Konda
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Abstract
In video conference scenarios, participants may be interested in preserving particular video frames. The participants may wish to capture one or more individual frames for storage and later usage. Systems and methods are described herein for a presenter to tag individual pictures during a live video stream for remote user download.
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A method comprising:
- sending a live video stream to a plurality of users;
- receiving a request from a presenter of the live video stream to capture a snapshot comprising a still image from the live video stream;
- tagging the still image wherein the tag indicates the availability of the still image to the plurality of users;
- and
- sending the still image as part of the live video stream to at least one of the plurality of users download in a file format desired by the at least one of the plurality of users.
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A method comprising:
- receiving a video stream comprised of a plurality of images;
- and
- decoding one or more tags embedded in the video stream, wherein the tags identify individual images of the plurality of images that have been selected by a presenter of the video stream as images of interest wherein the tag indicates the availability of the individual images to a remote user in a file format desired by the remote user.
An apparatus comprising:
- a first camera for capturing a video stream at a presenter location;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- receive input from the presenter;
- tag the active image in the video stream at the time that presented input is received;
- store the tagged image in a memory;
- and
- alert one or more remote viewers of the video stream that the stored image is available for download.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.