Multi-Display Meeting System for Remote Content Segmentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems for interactive meetings, such as Microsoft Teams, Google Hangouts, and Zoom, do not provide a fully immersive experience for remote attendees, limiting content sharing and interaction.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising a server running an application for controlling interactive meetings, multiple projectors, and displays in a room, allowing user-configurable settings for displaying different types of content on various displays, and a web application enabling remote attendees to access and interact with multiple types of content on different devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If existing meeting systems (Microsoft Teams, Google Hangouts, Zoom) are used, then remote attendees can join meetings, but the experience is not fully interactive and remote attendees are limited to viewing one shared document and video feeds
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the meeting experience by providing different content types (shared documents, whiteboards, video feeds, presentations) that can be distributed across multiple displays. Remote attendees can access different content types on different devices simultaneously, breaking the limitation of a single shared view and enabling parallel interaction with multiple content streams.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention adds a spatial dimension to content sharing by enabling multi-display configurations in the physical meeting room. Instead of a single shared screen, multiple displays show different content types simultaneously, creating a multi-dimensional content space that remote attendees can navigate across multiple devices, thereby enhancing interactivity and engagement.
2Ease of operation
If one person controls the content displayed to all attendees, then content sharing is simplified, but the interaction and cooperation experience is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables multiple users to simultaneously control and interact with different content types on different displays. Each participant can share documents, whiteboards, or video feeds on their chosen display, transforming the single-controller model into a multi-functional system where multiple users can collaborate independently across parallel content streams.
Solution Approach 2:
The meeting system acts as an intermediary that coordinates multiple content streams and displays, allowing each participant to control their own content while the system manages the overall synchronization and distribution. This mediator approach enables simplified individual control while maintaining system-wide collaboration capabilities.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple displays show different content types in the room, then in-room attendees have an immersive experience, but configuration complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system stores configuration settings for multi-display arrangements, allowing users to define their preferred content distribution across displays before meetings begin. These pre-configured settings can be reused in subsequent meetings, eliminating the need to reconfigure displays each time and reducing the perceived complexity while maintaining flexible content display capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The meeting system automatically manages content distribution across multiple displays based on stored preferences and current meeting context. Once configured, the system self-adjusts content routing without requiring manual intervention during meetings, reducing configuration complexity while maintaining high adaptability for different content types and display arrangements.
4Ease of operation
If remote attendees use a single device to access meeting content, then device requirements are simplified, but the ability to view multiple content types simultaneously is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges the functionality of multiple devices into a unified meeting experience for remote attendees. By allowing content to be distributed across multiple devices (laptop, tablet, phone) simultaneously, the system combines the capabilities of separate devices to provide an immersive multi-content viewing experience that mirrors the in-room multi-display environment, while maintaining ease of access through standard web browsers.
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AI summary
A system for enabling an interactive meeting between attendees physically located in a room as well as attendees located remotely from the room, comprising: a server which runs an application for controlling the interactive meeting; a plurality of projectors located in the room; and a plurality of displays in the room for displaying content from the plurality of projectors; wherein the application is arranged so that user provided settings can be configured to select which, of a plurality of types of content, is to be displayed on which of the plurality of displays; and wherein an attendee located remotely from the room, joins an interactive meeting via a web application using a web browser, and uses the web browser to view content being displayed on the displays in the room by using the web application on a first device to access content of one of the plurality of types, and using the web application on a second device to access content of another one of the plurality of types; and wherein the web application is arranged so that user provided settings can be configured to select which of a plurality of types of content is to be displayed on which of the first or second device.