Patent ID: 7554576

Claim:
A method performed by a computer system of processing digital information, the method comprising: receiving digital information at the computer system, the digital information including information captured by a set of one or more capture devices, a portion of the information captured by the set of capture devices including video information captured from a first capture device of a slide presentation; analyzing the digital information with the computer system to determine a set of one or more events, the set of events including a set of slide-related events identified by the computer system based in part from the video information captured by the first capture device; determining, with the computer system, a sequence of actions to be performed based upon the set of events; and performing the sequence of actions using the computer system; wherein the computer system determines a view based on the set of slide-related events and controls operation of the first capture device based on the sequence of actions to capture the view, the computer system causing the first capture device to: focus on a presenter when at least one slide-related event in the set of slide-related events indicates a slide change, focus on a screen used for showing one or more slides when at least one slide-related event in the set of slide-related events indicates consecutive slide changes, and focus on a room where a presentation is occurring when at least one slide-related event in the set of slide-related events indicates that a time period has elapsed without a slide change.