Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Mingju Zhang

Lei Zhang

Wei-Ying Ma

Avronil Bhattacharjee

Bo Qin

Yan-Feng Sun

Zheng Ni

Jeremy B Smith

Sumeet Bawa

Ananta Gudipaty

Zhi-Wei Lin

Aliasgar Haveliwala

The present interactive recording and playback technique provides the ability to archive the content, the discussions and the metadata of a meeting or similar event; then aggregate, search and annotate across this data; and finally edit, combine, or split various recordings to create new presentations. This interactive recording and playback technique provides rich productivity and innovation that is unavailable today.

Interactive recording and playback for network conferencing

A method and system for cropping an image is provided. The cropping system automatically crops an image by selecting an image template whose condition is best satisfied by the image and then by selecting a cropping of the image that best attains the goal of the selected image template. The cropping system may use a metric or objective function to rate how well a cropping attains the goal of the selected image template. The cropping system may apply various optimization algorithms to identify a cropping that is the best as indicated by the metric. The cropping system can then automatically crop the image based on the identified cropping.

Automatically cropping an image

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