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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2019
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Paul Bright-Thomas, Wokingham, GB;
Nathan Buckles, McKinney, TX (US);
Keith Griffin, Galway, IE;
Eric Chen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Manikandan Kesavan, Campbell, CA (US);
Plamen Nedeltchev, San Jose, CA (US);
Hugo Mike Latapie, Long Beach, CA (US);
Enzo Fenoglio, Issy-les-Moulineaux, FR;
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed for anticipating a video switch to accommodate a new speaker in a video conference comprising a real time video stream captured by a camera local to a first videoconference endpoint is analyzed according to at least one speaker anticipation model. The speaker anticipation model predicts that a new speaker is about to speak. Video of the anticipated new speaker is sent to the conferencing server in response to a request for the video on the anticipated new speaker from the conferencing server. Video of the anticipated new speaker is distributed to at least a second videoconference endpoint.