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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2014
Applicant:
Minerva Project, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventors:
Ari Bader-Natal, Pacifica, CA (US);
Stephen Michael Kosslyn, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jonathan Scott Katzman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew Michael Regan, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Minerva Project, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/15 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/152 (2013.01); G06F 3/013 (2013.01); H04L 12/1813 (2013.01); H04L 51/04 (2013.01); H04L 65/403 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method is disclosed for portraying physical visual attention cues or visual cues normally present in a conventional physical world in a virtual conference or class. The visual cues can be emulated by electronic signals in a video environment through physical interactions with the computer input by the user or participant of the virtual conference or image recognition algorithms provided by the video conferencing system.