Patent ID: 11601731

Abstract:
A camera is auto-focused on an in-person attendee in a hybrid meeting who is speaking into a microphone at a live location of the hybrid meeting, wherein the hybrid meeting is being streamed via a videoconferencing system to one or more remote attendees. The live location includes a real-time location system (RTLS) having a RTLS tag and a plurality of RTLS anchors for locating a position of the RTLS tag in three-dimensional space. The RTLS tag is fixed to the microphone. In operation, it detected when the microphone is active. The position of the RTLS tag in the live location is then identified, wherein the position of the RTLS tag in the live location is presumed to be the same position as the microphone that the RTLS tag is fixed to. The camera is auto-focused on the identified live location when the microphone is active, the camera thereby outputting a video signal of an area in the proximity of the microphone which is presumed to include an image of the in-person attendee who is speaking into the microphone. The live location camera image and the audio signal are then transmitted to the videoconferencing system for streaming to the one or more remote attendees.