Zoom Video Communications, Inc.

Zoom Communications, Inc.

Thanh Le Nguyen

Shane Paul Springer

Petrus Jacobus Botes

Steven Carl Rivers

Kyle William Krasicky

Richard Dean Legatski

Curtis Palmer

Jan Lutter

Jeffrey Stanley

Jason Ramirez

Methods and systems provide for providing a virtual background within a communication session using dynamic chroma key reframing. In one embodiment, a method displays a user interface including at least one video feed corresponding to a participant of the communication session. The method receives a request to enable a selected or provided virtual background using chroma keying. The method then determines a background layer of the video feed. The method also determines edges for the background layer. Next, the method crops and reframes the video feed around the edges of the background layer. The method then removes the background layer from the video feed, and adds the selected or provided virtual background to the background layer of the video feed. Finally, the method displays the video feed within the communication session.

Reframing video feeds around background layer

A conference profile associated with a user of a conference is identified. The conference profile specifies a peripheral device connected to a user device of the user and used to connect to the conference via a conferencing application. The conference profile is identified by a machine-learning model based on a current state associated with at least one of the conference or the user. The conferencing application is configured to use the peripheral device during the conference based on the conference profile. The current state can include a location of the user device. The location of the user device can be identified based on an internet protocol address of the user device. The current state can include at least one of a date or a time of the conference.

Profile-based conferencing application configuration

Devices connected to a user device and usable in configuring a conferencing application are identified. A selection of one of the devices is received. A conference profile that indicates to use the selected device is stored in association with a profile identification criterion. A request to connect the user device to a conference using the conferencing application is received. The profile identification criterion is determined to be satisfied based on receiving the request. In response to determining that the profile identification criterion is satisfied, the conference profile is retrieved. The conferencing application is configured, based on the conference profile, to use the selected device during the conference.

Device-based conference profile configuration

An input audio signal is received from a client device. A connection to a communication session with a plurality of participants is maintained for the client device. An audio feed corresponding to the input audio signal is transmitted to a plurality of other participant devices. While the communication session is in progress and the connection to the communication session is maintained by the client device, the following are periodically performed. An absence of audible speech originating at the client device within the input audio signal is detected. The audio feed transmitted to the plurality of other participant devices is muted. The input audio signal is analyzed for audible speech. A presence of audible speech within the input audio signal is detected. The audio feed transmitted to the plurality of other participant devices is unmuted.

Intelligent muting and unmuting of an audio feed within a communication session

A system can automatically search and gather participant information in connection with an event. The search for participant information for a participant is triggered when a positive action for the event is received from the participant. The participant information is gathered from at least one of public, private and software platform resources. The gathered participant information is processed to resolve consistency issues due to the different sources. The resolved participant information is formatted and transmitted to the client devices for display and stored in private resources associated with the participant.

Automated generation of event participant information

Systems and methods for identification of a client device location during an emergency are provided herein. In an example, a method includes receiving, by a video conference provider, a request to initiate an emergency beacon and determining, by the video conference provider, a first client device associated with the request. The method may also include activating, by the video conference provider, the emergency beacon for the first client device and establishing, by the video conference provider, a virtual session based on the emergency beacon. The method may also include joining, by the video conference provider, the first client device to the virtual session without input from the first client device and transmitting, by the video conference provider, a request to join an authorized device to the virtual session.

Identification of client device location during emergency

A note is dynamically generated with captured content from a communication session. At least a portion of the session content is recorded. A request to generate a note is received from one of the participants of the communication session. In response to receiving the request, the a note is generated that includes at least a designated portion of the recorded session content. Access to the portion of the session content identified in the note is granted to the requesting participant upon demand.

Dynamic note generation in communication sessions

Methods and systems provide for dynamically presenting at least one attentional element within a communication session. The system presents, to each of a number of participants within a communication session, a user interface ('UI') for the communication session. The system receives a signal of an event associated with a first participant intending to communicate with a second participant, with the second participant not acknowledging the intended communication. The system determines, after a predefined period of time, that the intended communication from the first user has not been acknowledged by the second user and that the event has not yet terminated. The system then initiates an attentional element within the UI of the second participant, the attentional element being more pronounced than the notification.

Presenting output to indicate a communication attempt during a communication session

A text communication is received from a telephone number of a sender. The text communication is directed to a recipient. A determination is made as to whether to challenge the sender. Responsive to determining to challenge the sender, a challenge is transmitted to the sender. A determination is made as to whether to route the text communication to the recipient based on whether a successful response to the challenge is received from the sender.

Blocking unwanted communications via text modalities

Session content is presented during a communication session to the participant devices. The participant devices transmit requests for notes to be generated for the session content. One or more segments of the communication session are determined when a threshold number of participant devices that requested notes to be generated is exceeded. Information associated with the one or more segments is transmitted to a participant device of the participant devices.

Note capture in communication sessions

The present disclosure provides systems and methods for delivering assistance to impaired users within a virtual conferencing system, and more particularly, to providing assistance to hearing-impaired users to control the virtual conferencing system while using sign language. The systems and methods for providing assistance to impaired users includes initiating a virtual meeting, detecting one or more hand gestures within a predefined area, interpreting the one or more hand gestures to determine one or more commands, and updating one or more controls for the virtual meeting based on the one or more commands. These steps can be implemented to assist hearing-impaired users to manage controls when communicating within a virtual meeting.

Sign language control for a virtual meeting

Various embodiments of an apparatus, method(s), system(s) and computer program product(s) described herein are directed to a Scaling Engine. The Scaling Engine identifies a background object portrayed in a background template for a video feed. The Scaling Engine determines a background template display position for concurrent display of the background object with video feed data. The Scaling Engine generates a scaled background template by modifying a current aspect ratio of the background template with the background object set at the background display position according to a video feed aspect ratio. The Scaling Engine generates a merged video feed by merging the scaled background template with live video feed data, the merged video feed data providing an unobstructed portrayal of the identified background object.

Merging scaled foreground and background templates

A communication is received from a telephone number of a sender. The communication is directed to a recipient. A trust level associated with the telephone number is determined to be other than a high trust level. Based on the trust level being other than the high trust level, a number of challenges to transmit to the sender is determined based on the trust level. Determining whether to route the communication to the recipient is based on whether respective successful responses to the challenges are received from the sender.

Blocking unwanted communications over telephony and messaging services

Virtual background in a communication session with dynamic chroma key reframing

A system can automatically adjust a virtual background used by a participant in a video conference to match lighting level conditions present in a foreground of a participant video stream captured at a participant device. The matching can be done by adjusting one or more virtual background parameters, including but not limited to, exposure, brightness, contrast, and ISO. In some implementations, the system can dynamically or automatically adjust the lighting levels of the virtual background based on changes that may occur to the lighting level of the foreground during the video conference.

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Thanh Le Nguyen