Patent ID: 9357168
Filing Date: 2016-05-31
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method comprising: enabling a video conference having a plurality of participants; determining an attention value for each of the plurality of participants, the attention value indicating a proportion of speaking time of each respective participant; determining at least two highest ranking attention values for at least two of the plurality of participants; determining one or more primary speakers from the plurality of participants based on a difference between the two highest ranking attention values meets a threshold difference; and modifying video streams of one or more of the plurality of participants based on determining the one or more primary speakers, wherein modifying the video streams comprises changing one or more of a position of at least one of the video streams and a size of at least one of the video streams.