Video Conference Active Content Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
In video conference systems with asymmetrical configurations, participants at far-end systems with a single display face difficulties in navigating and identifying relevant content, leading to a degraded user experience as they may miss details during the conference.
Innovation Solution
A near-end video conference system automatically determines active content by analyzing participant head orientations and attention scores across multiple endpoints, then sends this information to far-end systems to enable them to automatically display the relevant content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple pieces of content are distributed across multiple displays at the near-end system, then the near-end system can view and display all content simultaneously, but the far-end system with a single display cannot display all content and must manually navigate through various content
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism (content priority determination system) that automatically identifies and prioritizes relevant content for display at the far-end system. This mediator analyzes participant head orientations and attention scores to determine which content should be displayed, eliminating the need for manual navigation while maintaining adaptability to different conference scenarios.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by automatically determining content priority based on participant behavior (head orientations and attention scores). The far-end system automatically receives and displays the prioritized content without requiring manual intervention from participants, thus improving ease of operation while preserving the ability to handle multiple content types.
2Loss of information
If participants at the far-end system manually navigate through content to find relevant information, then they can identify important content, but they may miss details during the conference due to the time required for navigation
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-determining content priority before the far-end participant needs to view it. By continuously monitoring participant head orientations and attention scores at the near-end system, the patent identifies and prioritizes relevant content in advance, so that when the far-end participant needs information, it is already prepared and displayed without requiring time-consuming manual navigation, thus preventing information loss while minimizing time loss.
3Loss of information
If the far-end system displays all available content simultaneously on a single display, then all content is accessible, but the display becomes cluttered and difficult to navigate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the extraction principle by selectively extracting and displaying only the most relevant content at the far-end system based on determined priority levels. Instead of displaying all available content simultaneously (which would create clutter), the system extracts the essential content that participants need to see, maintaining information accessibility while eliminating display organization complexity through automated priority-based selection.
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AI summary
A video conference system may include two or more video conference endpoints, each having a display configured to display content. The video conference system may detect a plurality of participants within a field of view of a camera of the system. The video conference system may determine an attention score for each endpoint based on the participants. The video conference system may determine whether the content of the first endpoint and/or the content of the second endpoint are active content based on whether the attention scores exceed a predetermined threshold value. The video conference system may send to secondary video conference systems an indication of the active content to enable the secondary video conference systems to display the active content.