149 results about "Conference call" patented technology

Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to selectively suppress noise in a conference call. In at least one embodiment, one or more neural networks may be used to identify a source of a noise component and cause a notification to be sent, informing a user of the noise source to confirm or decline suppression of the noise component.

There is disclosed a method of operating an autonomous vehicle (AV), including: detecting an alert condition within the AV via data from an electronic sensor suite of the AV; based at least in part on detecting the alert condition, automatically initiating a call with another party; and communicatively coupling a passenger of the AV to the conference call, whereby the passenger can communicate with the other party via the conference call.

Provided herein are techniques to facilitate synchronizing audio streams for a conference call involving multiple microphones utilized at a same location or proximity to one another. In one example, a method may include obtaining, by an aggregating node, each of an audio data stream from each of a plurality of participant devices that are proximate to each other within a conference space for a conference session in which each audio data stream obtained from each participant device comprises audio data and synchronization information, wherein the synchronization information is based on a synchronization sound broadcast during the conference session and received by each of the plurality of participant devices; and synchronizing, by the aggregating node, the audio data of each audio data stream based, at least in part, on the synchronization information included in each audio stream obtained from each of the plurality of participant devices.

To filter unwanted sounds from a conference call, a first voice signal is captured by a first device during a conference call and converted into corresponding text, which is then analyzed to determine that a first portion of the text was spoken by a first user and a second portion of the text was spoken by a second user. If the first user is relevant to the conference call while the second user is not, the first voice signal is prevented from being transmitted into the conference call, the first portion of text is converted into a second voice signal using a voice profile of the first user to synthesize the voice of the first user, and the second voice signal is then transmitted into the conference call. The second portion of text is not converted into a voice signal, as the second user is determined not to be relevant.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for collaboration and view sharing between users when performing editing operations over a shared document. A first portion of a shared document is displayed to a first user in a user interface of a first instance of a collaboration application of a first user. The displayed first portion comprises a first location of the first user within the shared document. In the user interface, an indication specifying a relative locational direction from the first location towards a second location of a second user within the shared document is provided. A second portion of the shared document is being displayed to the second user through a second instance of the collaboration application during a conference call between a set of users, where the displayed second portion includes the second location of the second user within the shared document.

In aspects of call exit management between connected devices, a mobile wireless device detects, via a computing device communicatively linked to a mobile wireless device, that a user desires to exit a conference call session on the computing device; displays, on a display device of the computing device, a prompt including at least one contextual transcript; sends, to the mobile wireless device and based on input relative to the prompt, a selected contextual transcript from the at least one contextual transcript, the mobile wireless device generating a cloned audio message from the selected contextual transcript; and sends the cloned audio message to an external speaker that emits the cloned audio message.

Examples are described herein for establishing private communication channels. In various examples, camera-acquired eye tracking data if participants in a first video conference call may be monitored. Based on the monitoring, it may be determined that gazes of a subset of the participants collectively satisfy a criterion, wherein the subset includes a plurality of the participants in the first video conference call. In response to the determining that the gazes of the subset of participants collectively satisfy the criterion, a private second video conference call between the plurality of the participants is established.

The invention provides a financial risk prediction method based on multi-modal data fusion, and belongs to the technical field of artificial intelligence risk prediction, and the method comprises the steps: S1, carrying out the extraction of an audio feature vector of a financial report telephone conference of a target company; s2, performing text summary feature vector extraction on the financial report telephone conference of the target company; s3, summarizing the text summary of the financial report telephone conference of the target company by using a large language model to obtain an embedded vector corresponding to the summary of the text summary; s4, extracting news text features of the target company to obtain news text feature vectors; s5, performing feature extraction on the time sequence transaction data of the target company in a period before the target date to obtain a feature vector of the time sequence data; s6, obtaining a joint representation vector; and S7, inputting the joint representation vector into a multi-task learning framework, and carrying out risk index prediction. According to the method, the prediction precision is remarkably improved, hidden information is comprehensively utilized, and the method has good multi-task learning prediction capability.

A video conference call system is provided with a camera to generate an input frame image of a conference room, where the video conference call system detects a human head for each meeting participant captured in the input frame image by applying a machine learning human head detector model to said input image frame, generates a head bounding box which surrounds each detected human head and identifies a corresponding meeting participant, extracts a pixel width measure and pixel height measure from each head bounding box, and applies the extracted pixel width measure and pixel height measure to one or more reverse lookup tables to extract meeting room coordinates for each meeting participant identified by a corresponding head bounding box.

A computer implemented method, system, computer program product and computer program for managing a conference call on a first network wherein the network has a first location. The conference call is initiated and a first client and at least one second client are identified at the first location, each client having a speaker and a microphone. One of the first client and the at least one second client are designated to be a primary client, and the other ones of the first client and the at least one second client are designated to be at least one secondary client. In response to receiving a receive signal from the conference call, the receive signal is sent to the speaker of the primary client at the location, and the speaker of each of the at least one secondary client is muted.

Techniques for transcribing and / or summarizing multimedia collaboration sessions are discussed herein. For example, a user may communicate within a teleconference associated with a channel. In some examples, a first machine learning model may be configured to receive audiovisual data and user interaction data (e.g., selected emoticons, detected gestures, messages or text entered by a user, threads of messages, etc.) and output a teleconference summary. In some examples, the teleconference summary may include one or more highlight points, action items, and / or artificial intelligence (AI) annotations generated using a machine learning model.

A method for facilitating a timed video call comprising receiving a request from a host on a first user device to initiate a timed video call with one or more guests on one or more second user devices, the request including a configuration for a queue, wherein the queue determines an order and time for the one or more guests to speak during the timed video call, and streaming video and audio between the first user device and a given one of the one or more second user devices based on the queue, the streamed video and audio rendered on a call interface, the call interface comprising a timer ribbon including a host portion indicator corresponding to a first length of time, a guest portion indicator corresponding to a second length of time, and an indicator for a next one of the one or more guests on the queue.

The invention provides an H.323 video conference secure transmission system and method based on isolated transmission equipment, and relates to the technical field of data transmission. Comprising an extranet conference agent used for receiving a registration signaling of a conference calling terminal and transmitting the registration signaling to an intranet conference agent; after the conference called terminal completes registration, receiving a conference call of the conference calling terminal and transmitting the conference call to the intranet conference agent; receiving a call response and forwarding the call response to the conference call terminal; the intranet conference agent is used for receiving the registration signaling and the conference call sent by the extranet conference agent, and forwarding the registration signaling and the conference call to the called conference terminal; and receiving a call response sent by the called conference terminal, and transmitting the call response to the external network conference agent. According to the invention, high-efficiency transmission of audio and video data is realized, centralized management is carried out through a single-guide mode, and the system is suitable for scenes requiring low-delay and high-reliability audio and video transmission, such as online conferences, video live broadcast and multimedia applications.

Systems and methods for implementing smart in-vehicle conferencing with user tracking and speaker prioritization. A controller system of a vehicle may determine, based at least in part on one or more cameras, a plurality of candidate best image sources, determine, from the plurality of candidate best image sources, a best image source for a speaker in the vehicle, determine, based at least in part on the best image source, a video feed, determine, based at least in part on one or more microphones, a plurality of candidate best audio sources, determine, from the plurality of candidate best audio sources, a best audio source for the speaker, determine, based at least in part on the best audio source, an audio feed, and provide, to a conference call line, the video feed and the audio feed.

In aspects of modulation-based call exit management, a media device detects that a user desires to exit a conference call and determines whether a video feed of the conference call is active or inactive. Based on the video feed being active, the media device applies at least one of modulation or a depth effect to the pre-recorded audio message to generate a modified pre-recorded audio message. Based on the video feed being inactive, the media device records an audio message of the user reading the contextual transcript during the conference call to generate a recorded audio message and applies at least one of the modulation or the depth effect to the recorded audio message to generate a modified recorded audio message. The media device provides the modified pre-recorded audio message or the modified recorded audio message to a speaker that emits the provided audio message.

In aspects of modulation-based call exit management, a media device detects that a user desires to exit a conference call and determines whether a video feed of the conference call is active or inactive. Based on the video feed being active, the media device applies at least one of modulation or a depth effect to the pre-recorded audio message to generate a modified pre-recorded audio message. Based on the video feed being inactive, the media device records an audio message of the user reading the contextual transcript during the conference call to generate a recorded audio message and applies at least one of the modulation or the depth effect to the recorded audio message to generate a modified recorded audio message. The media device provides the modified pre-recorded audio message or the modified recorded audio message to a speaker that emits the provided audio message.

Disclosed are a system and method for establishing and managing one-to-one and conference call sessions through a virtual waiting room. Conference calls may be established initially or created as additional people are invited to an existing call. Functions such as screensharing, chat messaging, and file sharing may be provided. Media, including video, text, and images, may be selected and sent to participants while they are on hold or during an active call session.

The invention provides a video transmission optimization method and system based on the capability of display equipment. The method comprises the following steps: identifying a maximum display parameter of a display device currently connected with the terminal; obtaining the maximum decoding capability of the terminal according to the maximum display parameter of the display device and the decoding capability of the terminal; and when the terminal and the remote end carry out video conference calling, the two parties determine a video receiving format according to the maximum decoding capability, the coding capability of the remote end and the network bandwidth in a connection establishment process. According to the video transmission optimization method and system based on the display equipment capability, a more accurate and flexible video transmission scheme can be provided by considering the actual capability of the display equipment, and the overall performance and user experience of a video conference are remarkably improved.

A communication server and accompanying communication devices allow near instantaneous communication between users of the communication devices. A communication device may be configured with multiple channels, where each channel is assigned a corresponding communication device. As the communication devices are registered with the communication server, each communication device has knowledge of other registered communication devices. Thus, communication devices may communicate nearly instantaneously with each other. Furthermore, as the communication device is equipped with multiple channels, a single communication device may host a conference call with other communication devices. In addition, communication device may include multiple buttons to control the communication device, and indicator lights to indicate the status of calls with other communication devices.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for improving conference call initiation at a first user equipment (UE). An example method includes initiating a mobile call associated with a second UE, receiving input requesting to add a third UE to the mobile call prior to the mobile call being established with the second UE, and taking one or more actions to establish a mobile conference call with the second UE and the third UE based on the received input prior to the mobile call being established with the second UE.

The disclosed techniques are directed to a system that manages use scenarios implementing and managing deliberate overlapping meetings conference calls. For example, an executive may organize hybrid meetings by scheduling an all-day meeting, e.g., 9 AM to 5 PM, in a conference room, and also scheduling multiple sub-meetings with and joined by different attendees by coming to the conference room and / or joining from conference calls. For example, first sub-meetings may be scheduled from 9 AM to 11 AM and scheduled for the same conference room as the all-day meeting. Instead of rejecting the request to reserve the conference room for the sub-meeting, which in existing systems would occur because of the reservation set by the all-day meeting, the system accepts the request to reserve the conference room for the sub-meeting. The system also notifies all invitees of each sub-meeting of the conference room reservation.

Devices, systems, and techniques for selectively suppressing noise in a conference call. In at least one embodiment, one or more neural networks can be used to identify a source of a noise component and to cause a notification to be sent, informing a user of the noise source to confirm or reject the suppression of the noise component.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for collaboration and view sharing between users when performing editing operations over a shared document. A first portion of a shared document is displayed to a first user in a user interface of a first instance of a collaboration application of a first user. The displayed first portion comprises a first location of the first user within the shared document. In the user interface, an indication specifying a relative locational direction from the first location towards a second location of a second user within the shared document is provided. A second portion of the shared document is being displayed to the second user through a second instance of the collaboration application during a conference call between a set of users, where the displayed second portion includes the second location of the second user within the shared document.

The disclosure relates to a method for processing audio signals in a video conference call. At first, virtual room boundaries defining space relevant for the video conference call are determined. By at least one input transducer, audio data are obtained and by at least one camera, video data are obtained. The video data and audio data are then correlated. On the basis of the correlation and defined virtual room boundaries, the audio data are modified and modified output audio data are generated.

Data indicating one or more verbal phrases provided by one or more participants during a conference call is fed as input to a machine learning model. One or more outputs of the machine learning model are obtained. A polling question for polling at least a portion of the participants is extracted from the one or more outputs of the machine learning model. The polling question is based on one or more verbal phrases provided by the one or more participants. The polling question is provided for polling the at least the portion of the participants during the conference call.

The application provides a financial risk prediction method based on multi-modal data fusion, and belongs to the technical field of artificial intelligence risk prediction, and comprises the following steps: S1, audio feature vector extraction is performed on a financial report telephone conference of a target company; S2, text summary feature vector extraction is performed on the financial report telephone conference of the target company; S3, a large language model is used to summarize the text summary of the financial report telephone conference of the target company, and an embedding vector corresponding to the summary of the text summary is obtained; S4, news text features of the target company are extracted, and a news text feature vector is obtained; S5, feature extraction is performed on time series transaction data of the target company in a period before a target date, and a time series data feature vector is obtained; S6, a joint representation vector is obtained; and S7, the joint representation vector is input into a multi-task learning framework to perform risk index prediction. The application has the advantages of significantly improved prediction accuracy, comprehensive utilization of implicit information, and good multi-task learning prediction capability.

A multi-camera video conference call system is provided with a plurality of cameras connected together over a communication network to generate a corresponding plurality of input frame images taken from different perspectives of a video conference room, where the multi-camera video conference call system detects one or more human heads for any meeting participants captured in the input frame images, generates a head bounding box which surrounds each detected human head, extracts a body bounding box which surrounds the detected human head and at least an upper body portion of a meeting participant belonging to the detected human head, generates a participant identification feature embedding from each body bounding box, and performs person re-identification processing on all generated participant identification feature embeddings to determine a count of the meeting participants in the video conference room.

Systems and methods are provided for automatically performing an action in respect of a conference call. One example method includes receiving, at a computing device, audio and determining a user response to the audio. Audio content is determined with natural language processing. An action based on the user response and the audio content is performed.

Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods to save power during conference calls are disclosed. An example first client device includes interface circuitry; machine readable instructions; and at least one processor circuit to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to: determine whether a first attendee of a conference call is absent from the first client device; and cause transmission of a notification to at least one of a server for the conference call or a second client device associated with the conference call and different from the first client device, the notification to cause the second client device to change an operating state associates with the conference call.

An apparatus and method is disclosed. An example embodiment of the method may comprise receiving audio and video data from a plurality of user devices as part of a conference call, the video data representing a user of the respective user device and identifying one or more of the user devices as having a spatial audio capture capability. Another operation may comprise displaying, or causing display of, the video data from the user devices in different respective windows of a user interface. The respective windows for the identified one or more user devices may be displayed in an enlarged format so as to have a wider background region than for windows for the user devices without a spatial capture capability.