Web Conference Screen Sharing Overlay Pane Removal
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current web conferencing technologies often share unnecessary application user interfaces, such as web conferencing application user interfaces, which can clutter the desktop view and potentially reveal confidential information, during screen sharing.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a method to capture and aggregate display images from both the standard and overlay panes, specifically removing the web conferencing application user interface from the overlay pane to prevent its inclusion in the shared desktop view, allowing for a cleaner presentation and maintaining confidentiality of certain user interfaces.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the web conferencing application user interface is included in the shared desktop view, then the shared view provides complete information about all application interfaces, but the shared view becomes cluttered and may reveal confidential information
Solution Approach 1:
The display is divided into two separate panes: a standard pane that captures the complete desktop view including all application interfaces, and an overlay pane that specifically captures the web conferencing application user interface. This segmentation allows selective sharing of content while maintaining the ability to exclude sensitive elements.
Solution Approach 2:
The web conferencing application user interface is extracted from the overlay pane and excluded from the final shared desktop view. By capturing the standard pane separately and combining it with a modified overlay pane (from which the conferencing UI has been removed), the solution extracts and removes the problematic element that causes clutter and confidentiality risks.
2Productivity
If all application user interfaces are shared during web conferencing, then presenters can share comprehensive desktop content, but presenters lose control over what specific interfaces are visible to participants
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically controls which elements are included in the shared view by processing and modifying the overlay pane to remove specific user interfaces. This dynamic adjustment allows presenters to maintain comprehensive sharing capability while exercising precise control over what participants can see, resolving the contradiction between sharing efficiency and operational control.
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AI summary
Various embodiments herein include one or more of systems, methods, and software for multi-pane display capture, aggregation, and sharing. Some such embodiments include generating an image on a computing device to share with participants in a web conference meeting by capturing a first image of a first graphic display output layer and a second graphic display output layer and removing a portion of the first image. Some embodiments may also include capturing a second image of the second graphic display output layer and combining the first and second images to form a third image. The third image may then be sent to one or more participants of the web conference meeting. The first graphic display output layer may include an overlay pane graphical output of a computing device and the second graphic display output layer may include a standard pane graphical output of the computing device.