Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and systems for displaying relevant participants in a video communication
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Application No.: US15356071Application Date: 2016-11-18
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Publication No.: US10079994B2Publication Date: 2018-09-18
- Inventor: Duckjin Kang , Zhengping Zuo , Stephane Taine , Brendan Benjamin Aronoff
- Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
- Current Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Main IPC: H04N7/15
- IPC: H04N7/15 ; H04N7/14 ; G06F3/0488

Abstract:
Exemplary embodiments relate to techniques for selecting which users should be shown in an interface during a group call, and for presenting the users on (potentially small) displays. According to some embodiments, a most-relevant speaker is selected for display on each call participants' screen. When deciding which user to display in the primary window of a video call, a dominant or relevant user is selected. A dominant user may be selected based on the audio energy represented by the audio packets for the user's device; alternatively dominant user selection may be implemented using artificial intelligence or machine learning, allowing for better differentiation between speaking and noise. On each user's display that does not belong to the relevant user, the current relevant user is shown. On the current relevant user's display, the previous relevant user is shown.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180146160A1 Methods and Systems for Displaying Relevant Participants in a Video Communication Public/Granted day:2018-05-24
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