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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2020
Applicant:
Plantronics, Inc., Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Inventors:
Rommel Gabriel Childress, Jr., Cedar Park, TX (US);
Alain Elon Nimri, Austin, TX (US);
Stephen Paul Schaefer, Cedar Park, TX (US);
David Young, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Plantronics, Inc., Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/15 (2006.01); H04N 7/04 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/15 (2013.01); G06K 9/00228 (2013.01); G06K 9/00744 (2013.01); H04N 7/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for determining camera framing in a teleconferencing system comprises a process loop which includes acquiring an audio-visual frame from a captured a video data frame; detecting objects and extracting image features of the objects within the video data frame, ingesting the audio-visual frame into a context-based audio-visual map in an intelligent manner, and selecting targets from within the map for inclusion in an audio-video stream for transmission to a remote endpoint.