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 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein detecting one of the participants as an active speaker is based on output from one or more microphones of the video conference endpoint.