Patent Document ID: 9942518
Application ID: 15581120

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: detecting, by a video conference endpoint, a plurality of participants within a field of view of a video camera of the video conference endpoint; calculating, by the video conference endpoint, a proximity of each participant with respect to one or more other participants; grouping, by the video conference endpoint, the participants into one or more groups based on the proximity such that the one or more groups include more than one participant; detecting, by the video conference endpoint, a first participant of a first group of the one or more groups as an active speaker; and altering, by the video conference endpoint, a framing of a video output of the video conference endpoint to frame the first group.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein detecting a plurality of participants is performed based on output from the video camera of the video conference endpoint, and using one or more of face detection, gaze detection, upper body detection, or motion detection of the plurality of participants.