Prioritized display of visual content in computer presentations

A system to prioritize display of visual content in a computer presentation, the system comprising:

• a storage device;
• and
• at least one processor operative to access the storage device and operative to perform operations comprising:
• obtaining first visual content and second visual content associated with the first visual content, wherein the first visual content and second visual content include a plurality of pixels, wherein the first visual content excludes a visual representation of a user, and wherein the second visual content includes a visual representation of at least one user associated with the computer presentation;
• providing a display of the computer presentation by a display device, wherein the computer presentation includes the first visual content displayed in a presentation area of the computer presentation and wherein the computer presentation excludes the display of the second visual content, wherein an amount of information is displayed in the first visual content and varies over time during the display of the first visual content;
• determining that a first presentation priority of the first visual content is reduced based on a determination that, for at least a threshold period of time, less than a threshold number of pixels of the first visual content have changed, wherein the threshold period of time is variable and is based on the amount of information currently displayed in the first visual content;
• and
• in response to determining that the first presentation priority is reduced, improving a visibility of a display of the second visual content in the computer presentation, wherein improving the visibility of the display of the second visual content includes adding the display of the second visual content in the computer presentation that overlaps at least a portion of the first visual content while the first visual content is displayed in the computer presentation such that the overlapped at least a portion of the first visual content is not displayed in the computer presentation.

A nontransitory computer readable medium having stored thereon software instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to prioritize display of visual content in a computer presentation by performing operations including:

• obtaining first visual content and second visual content associated with the first visual content, wherein the first visual content and second visual content each include a plurality of frames to be displayed in sequence, each frame including a plurality of pixels, wherein at least some frames of the plurality of frames include different amounts of information;
• providing a display of the computer presentation by a display device, wherein the computer presentation includes first visual content displayed in a presentation area of the computer presentation;
• determining that a particular frame of the plurality of frames of the first visual content has been displayed in the presentation area for at least a threshold amount of time, wherein the threshold amount of time is variable and is based on an amount of information displayed in the particular frame;
• and
• in response to the determination, improving a visibility of a display of the second visual content in the computer presentation.