Patent ID: 9633270
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: G06K,G10L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method comprising: at a video conference endpoint including a microphone and a camera: detecting a talker position of a talker based on audio detected by the microphone; detecting one or more faces and face positions in video captured by the camera; determining whether a detected talker position matches any detected face position; if there is no match, performing speaker clustering across a speech segment in the detected audio and speech segments in previously detected audio; if the speaker clustering indicates the talker is known, determining whether the detected talker position matches a previous closeup position of the talker, wherein the previous closeup position is a previously detected talker position that matches a previously detected face; and based on results of the determining whether the detected talker position matches the previous closeup position of the talker, framing either a closeup camera view on the previous closeup position or a non-closeup camera view based on the detected talker position.