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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2021
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Eric Chris Wolfgang Sommerlade, Oxford, GB;
Alexandros Neophytou, London, GB;
Sunando Sengupta, Reading, GB;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for applying gaze adjustment techniques to participants in a video conference are disclosed. Some examples may include: receiving, at computing system, image adjustment information associated with a video stream including images of a first participant, identifying, for a display layout of a communication application, a location displaying the images of the first participant, determining, based on the received image adjustment information, a location displaying images of a second participant for the display layout, the received image adjustment information indicating that an eye gaze of the first participant being directed toward the second participant, computing an eye gaze direction of the first participant based on the location displaying images of the second participant, generating gaze-adjusted images based on the desired eye gaze direction of the first participant and replacing the images within the video stream with the gaze-adjusted images.