Logitech Europe S.a.

Kristopher Glenn Perry

Oleg Ostap

Richard John Campbell

Henry Levak

Joseph Yao-Hua Chu

Miguel Angel Maestre Trueba

Kostiantyn Verhun

Ihor Dutchak

Ihor Okhrimenko

Yu Loh

Anurag Bansal

Fu Han Chao

Ankita Verma

Andrzej Jan Szewczyk

Embodiments herein generally relate to video-conferencing systems, and more particularly a method and system for optimally grouping and auto-cropping a field of view (FOV) of the video-conferencing system based on predefined preferences, such as preferences determined by a user. Generally, embodiments of the disclosure provided herein include a video-conferencing system that is configured to update the presentation of participants within a video conference to regularly determine the optimal presentation of the participants at any given moment in time based on predetermined preferences, while mitigating defects and related unwanted distractions typically generated in the video conference presentation due to the changes provided in the updates. Embodiments of the disclosure allow the predetermined preferences to each be given an importance level rating so as to allow the presentation of the participants to be optimally provided without making unnecessary and/or distracting updates to the video conference presentation, and also help resolve conflicting or competing attributes of related preferences.

Optimal grouping during video conferencing by loss based techniques

A system and method for providing video conferencing are described herein. Original video streams from one or more cameras are sampled to form downscaled versions of the video stream. The downscaled version is analyzed to find regions of interest and generate metadata describing aspects of the regions of interest, including a region that includes a preferred speaker and the best view of each participant present together in the video conference. Cropping instructions are generated from the metadata, and portions of the original video stream are removed to form a set of presentation views for each participant, including the preferred speaker. The set of presentation views is stitched together to form a composite display for each participant viewing the stream remotely.

Parallel processing of digital images

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Camas, WA, United States of America

Kristopher Glenn Perry