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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2022
Zoom Video Communications, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Richard Dean Legatski, Castle Rock, CO (US);
Thanh Le Nguyen, Belle Chase, LA (US);
Zoom Video Communications, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for delivering assistance to impaired users within a virtual conferencing system, and more particularly, to providing assistance to hearing-impaired users to control the virtual conferencing system while using sign language. The systems and methods for providing assistance to impaired users includes initiating a virtual meeting, detecting one or more hand gestures within a predefined area, interpreting the one or more hand gestures to determine one or more commands, and updating one or more controls for the virtual meeting based on the one or more commands. These steps can be implemented to assist hearing-impaired users to manage controls when communicating within a virtual meeting.