Action(s) based on automatic participant identification
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsRaymond Walter Riley, Kae-Ling Gurr, Brett Delainey Christie, Joshua D. Maruska, Joshua Noble
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Abstract
Techniques are described herein that are capable of performing action(s) based on automatic participant identification. For example, participants of a meeting may be automatically identified independently from an invitee list for the meeting. In another example, participants of the meeting may be automatically identified even if such participants are not indicated by the invitee list. An action is performed with regard to the participants of the meeting based at least in part on the participants being automatically identified.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- identification logic configured to automatically identify participants of a meeting in a view of an environment that is captured by a video camera;
- proximity determination logic configured to determine whether a first participant that is included in the participants is within a first proximity of a first object as first content is provided via the first object in response to the first participant being automatically identified;
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- author determination logic configured to determine that the first participant is an author of the first content based at least in part on a determination that the first participant is within the first proximity of the first object as the first content is provided via the first object.
A method comprising:
- automatically identifying participants of a meeting in a view of an environment, which is captured by a video camera, said automatically identifying the participants comprising:
- automatically identifying a first participant of the meeting;
- determining that the first participant is closer than others of the participants to an object as first portions of a collaborative image are generated on an object at respective first time instances in response to automatically identifying the first participant;
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- determining that the first participant is an author of the first portions of the collaborative image based on a determination that the first participant is closer than others of the participants to the object as the first portions of the collaborative image are generated on the object.
A system comprising:
- recognition logic configured to recognize that a designated participant of a meeting is not indicated by an invitee list for the meeting, the invitee list indicating people who are invited to the meeting;
- identification logic configured to automatically identify participants of the meeting in a 360-degree view of an environment that is captured by a 360-degree video camera;
- provision logic configured to provide a video stream that is generated from at least a first portion of the 360-degree view for presentation on a display of a computing device of a remote participant of the meeting who is not represented in the 360-degree view;
- determination logic configured to determine whether a representation of the designated participant in the video stream is selected by the remote participant and combination logic configured to incorporate information regarding the designated participant into the video stream to provide an updated video stream for presentation on the display of the computing device of the remote participant in response to a determination that the representation of the designated participant in the video stream is selected by the remote participant.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.