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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2019
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Johnny Trenh, San Jose, CA (US);
Hsi-Jung Wu, San Jose, CA (US);
Sarah K. Herrlinger, Cupertino, CA (US);
Xiaoxia Sun, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ian J. Baird, Cupertino, CA (US);
Dazhong Zhang, Milpitas, CA (US);
Xiaosong Zhou, Campbell, CA (US);
Christopher M. Garrido, Cupertino, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are presented for managing for visual prominence of participants in a video conference, including conferences where participants communicate visually, such as with sign language. According to these techniques, a visual prominence indication of a participant in a video conference may be estimated, a video stream of the participant may be encoded, and the encoded video stream may be transmitted along with an indication of the estimated visual prominence to a receiving device in the video conference.