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

Claim 14:
15. A method for applying gaze adjustment techniques to participants in a video conference, the method comprising:
capturing, via a camera of a computing system, a video stream including images of a user of the computing system;
detecting, via a processor of the computing system, a face region of the user within the images;
detecting facial feature regions of the user within the images based on the detected face region;
detecting an eye region of the user within the images based on the detected facial feature regions;
computing an eye gaze direction of the user based on the detected eye region;
identifying a first participant in a display layout of a video communication application based on the eye gaze direction of the user being directed toward the first participant according to the display layout displayed to the user;
providing gaze information to a gaze coordinator, the gaze information including an identifier associated with the user and an identifier associated with the first participant;
generating gaze-adjusted images based on an eye gaze direction of the user, wherein the gaze-adjusted images include at least one of an adjusted eye gaze direction of the user or an adjusted head pose of the user according to a received image adjustment information including an eye gaze of the user being directed toward the first participant according to the display layout displayed to the user; and
replacing the images within the video stream with the gaze-adjusted images.