Interactive Audiovisual Signal Generation for Remote Meeting Overlays

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing electronic devices struggle with separate windows for user images and shared content during remote meetings, leading to impaired communication due to the audience's inability to simultaneously view both effectively.

Innovation Solution

The implementation of an interactive audiovisual signal generation system that includes an image sensor to capture user gestures, allowing for dynamic adjustment of shared content within an interactive region based on detected gestures, enhancing simultaneous viewing of user and content.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If separate windows are used for user images and shared content during remote meetings, then both user and content can be displayed simultaneously, but the audience's ability to view both effectively is impaired

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenumber of display elementsVSAvoidcommunication effectiveness

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the user image and shared content into a single integrated display window, allowing both elements to coexist in a unified visual space. The user image is overlaid on top of the shared content, creating a combined display that eliminates the need for separate windows while maintaining visibility of both elements simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements a nested display structure where the user image window is positioned within the shared content window. The user image acts as a foreground element nested over the background shared content, creating a hierarchical nesting arrangement that allows both elements to be viewed together without requiring separate window spaces.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

2Area of stationary object

If the user image window is made smaller to accommodate shared content, then more content can be displayed, but the user's facial expressions and gestures become less visible

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent display areaVSAvoidfacial expression visibility

Core Design Contradiction:

Area of stationary objectVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by making the user image window semi-transparent rather than fully opaque. This allows different parts of the display to have different transparency properties - the user image window is transparent enough to allow shared content to show through while remaining visible itself, optimizing both content display area and user visibility simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

3Loss of information

If the user image window is made larger to show facial expressions, then communication effectiveness improves, but the shared content display area is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecommunication effectivenessVSAvoidcontent display area

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSArea of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses transparency (an optical property similar to color changes) to allow the user image window to appear in multiple states - fully visible when needed for communication and transparent when content display is prioritized. This dynamic transparency adjustment resolves the contradiction by allowing the same window to serve both functions at different times.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #32Color changes

4Adaptability or versatility

If manual adjustment of window disposition is allowed, then viewing preferences can be customized, but the audience member experience becomes disruptive

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveviewing preference customizationVSAvoidaudience experience

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements automatic window positioning and sizing that adapts to different scenarios without requiring manual user intervention. The system automatically adjusts the user image window characteristics based on detected gestures and communication context, providing adaptability while eliminating the disruption of manual adjustments during presentations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses gesture detection as feedback to automatically adjust window disposition and transparency. The system monitors user gestures and automatically modifies the display parameters in response, creating a closed-loop system that adapts to user needs without requiring manual window adjustment, thus maintaining both adaptability and ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20250208718A1Interactive regions of audiovisual signals

Publication Date: 2025.06.26 HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LP

AI summary

In some examples, an electronic device includes an image sensor and a controller. The controller detects a user gesture within a first audiovisual signal received via the image sensor. The first audiovisual signal is an audiovisual signal of a first application. In response to a determination that the user gesture indicates a first region of the first audiovisual signal, the controller generates a second audiovisual signal having an interactive region. The interactive region has coordinates equivalent to coordinates of the first region of the first audiovisual signal. The controller causes display, transmission, or a combination thereof, of the second audiovisual signal in place of the first audiovisual signal. The second audiovisual signal includes the first audiovisual signal and shared content of a second application disposed within the interactive region.