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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Jason Benjamin Ellis, New York, NY (US);
Thomas D. Erickson, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Karin Niemantsverdriet, Eindhoven, NL;
Bin Xu, Ithaca, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN, Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A system and method for displaying visual focus points of meeting participants uses an image capture device to generate a real-time graphical representation of a physical meeting space containing collocated meeting participants. Remote display devices display the real-time graphical representation of the physical meeting space. Each remote display device is associated with a remote meeting participant located at a remote location. A viewpoint monitoring mechanism determines a remote participant visual point of focus within the real-time graphical representation. A remote participant simulator located in the physical meeting space has a unique remote participant representation for each remote meeting participant and a remote participant visual point of focus indicator associated with each remote participant representation to simulate the remote participant visual point of focus.