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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2019
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Anne Raynor, Menlo Park, CA (US);
FACEBOOK, INC., Meno Park, CA (US);
Abstract
Exemplary embodiments relate to techniques for providing modifiable views when capturing an image of a video call. When a user takes a picture of a video call (e.g., a screen shot), associated applications may scrape the phone of the call participants to acquire a better-quality image than what might be displayed in the call interface, which may be of reduced quality due to compression and/or bandwidth limitations. Problematically, the layout of the call interface is different on each user's device, which can cause the resulting screenshot to not look as expected. Exemplary embodiments therefore place the data scraped from each device into movable elements, which can be rearranged on the screen to alter the layout (even post-capture). Moreover, new layouts are possible, potentially with additional graphical elements. In some embodiments, information gathered from a user's social networking information can determine the layout parameters.