Patent ID: 9706171
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G10L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method of providing a polyptych view that includes three or more designated video streams, the method comprising: selecting three or more designated participants from participants of a video conference based on at least one of a priority of each participant or a speaker metric of each participant, the participants including a plurality of first participants and one or more second participants, the plurality of first participants are in a field of view of a 360-degree camera that is configured to provide a 360-degree video stream that includes a plurality of portions that correspond to the plurality of respective first participants based on the field of view, the one or more second participants are not in the field of view of the 360-degree camera, the three or more designated participants including one or more designated first participants of the plurality of first participants; dividing the 360-degree video stream into the plurality of portions based on the plurality of respective first participants; determining whether each portion of the plurality of portions is to be included in the polyptych view based on whether the three or more designated participants include the first participant to which the respective portion corresponds; and combining the three or more designated video streams of the three or more respective designated participants to form the polyptych view for presentation on a display of a computing device of a specified participant that is included in the one or more second participants, the three or more designated video streams comprising one or more first video streams of the one or more respective designated first participants, the one or more first video streams being one or more respective portions of the plurality of portions of the 360-degree video stream.