Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Virtual circular conferencing experience using unified communication technology
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Application No.: US14709660Application Date: 2015-05-12
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Publication No.: US09497416B2Publication Date: 2016-11-15
- Inventor: Jinyan Su
- Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
- Current Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agent Monica Adjemian; Sudhanshu Sohoni; Micky Minhas
- Main IPC: H04N7/14
- IPC: H04N7/14 ; H04N7/15 ; G06F3/01 ; H04L12/18 ; G06T3/40 ; H04N5/232

Abstract:
A virtual circular conferencing experience using unified communication technology is described. An apparatus may comprise a communications module operative to receive a plurality of incoming video streams from corresponding client devices for a conference call, a multimedia controller operative to retrieve video information of participants from each of the incoming video streams and generate a seamless virtual circular video stream from the video information comprising a virtual circular image having a composite of participants in a virtual room, and a communications module operative to broadcast the seamless virtual circular video stream to the client devices. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150244986A1 VIRTUAL CIRCULAR CONFERENCING EXPERIENCE USING UNIFIED COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY Public/Granted day:2015-08-27
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