Patent ID: 9167204
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: G06F,H04M,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for managing a mute state of a participant in a teleconference, comprising: detecting based on analysis of at least one characteristic of audio data received from a microphone associated with the participant or image data received from a camera associated with the participant, whether the participant is attempting to speak to other teleconference participants, wherein detecting whether the participant is attempting to speak to other teleconference participants comprises: in each of multiple processing cycles, analyzing a frame of at least one of the image data and the audio data to indicate whether in each cycle, that the participant is attempting to speak to other teleconference participants; and applying a hysteresis to the analysis of the frames, such that detecting that the participant is not attempting to speak occurs upon determining that within a particular trailing number of processing cycles, the number of cycles in which analysis indicates that the participant is not attempting to speak to teleconference participants exceeds the number of cycles in which analysis indicates that the participant is attempting to speak to teleconference participants by at least a predetermined threshold; and providing an alert to the participant in response to a detecting that the participant is attempting to speak to other teleconference participants while the microphone is muted.