Cisco Technology, Inc.

Glenn R G Aarrestad

Johan Ludvig Nielsen

Evelyne Chaubert

Shawn Emory Bender

Lennart Burenius

David Michael Sanguinet

Jochen Christof Schirdewahn

Eric Wayne Nichols

Kenneth Douglas Wood

Dan Harden

Kristian Tangeland

Torence Lu

Christopher L Whittall

Kyle A Buzzard

Terri LaBelle Cruse

Jorunn Tyssø

Daniel Casimiro Nunez

Øivind Stuan

Emory Thomas Richards

Olin D Williford, Ii

Eva-Marit Tøftum

Danny H B Chan

A system that automatically configures the behavior of the display devices of a video conference endpoint. The controller may detect, at a microphone array having a predetermined physical relationship with respect to a camera, audio emitted from one or more loudspeakers, each loudspeaker having a predetermined physical relationship with respect to at least one of one or more display devices in a conference room. The controller may then generate data representing a spatial relationship between the one or more display devices and the camera based on the detected audio. Finally, the controller may assign video sources received by the endpoint to each of the one or more display devices based on the data representing the spatial relationship and the content of each received video source, and may also assign outputs from multiple video cameras to an outgoing video stream based on the on the data representing the spatial relationship.

Automated configuration of behavior of a telepresence system based on spatial detection of telepresence components

At a video conference endpoint including a microphone array and a camera, different camera framings are established to frame different views of a talker based on different sets of pan, tilt, and focal length settings of the camera. Different video frames of the different views are captured using the different camera framings, respectively. A sound source direction of the talker relative to the microphone array in a fixed three-dimensional (3D) global coordinate system is determined for the different views based on sound from the talker detected by the microphone array. The sound source direction relative to the microphone array is converted to different sound source positions in planar coordinates relative to the different video frames based on the different sets of pan, tilt, and focal length settings, respectively. The different video frames, the sound, and the different sound source positions in planar coordinates are transmitted.

Using local talker position to pan sound relative to video frames at a remote location

Microphone

Table microphone

Display screen module

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Glenn R G Aarrestad