Patent ID: 11871147
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 15:
16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:
receiving, at the computing system, image adjustment information associated with a video stream including images of a second participant;
identifying, based on the display layout of the video communication application, a location displaying the images of the second participant;
determining, based on the received image adjustment information, a location displaying images of a third participant for the display layout, the received image adjustment information indicating that the eye gaze of the second participant is directed toward the third participant;
computing an eye gaze direction of the second participant based on the location displaying images of the third participant according to the display layout displayed to the second participant;
generating gaze-adjusted images based on the eye gaze direction of the second participant, wherein the gaze-adjusted images include at least one of an adjusted eye gaze direction of the second participant or an adjusted head pose of the second participant according to the received image adjustment information including the eye gaze of the second participant being directed toward the third participant according to the display layout displayed to the second participant; and
replacing the images within the video stream with the gaze-adjusted images.