PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15908984
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["348", "014090"]

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a method is provided to intelligently frame groups of participants in a meeting. This gives a more pleasing experience with fewer switches, better contextual understanding, and more natural framing, as would be seen in a video production made by a human director. Furthermore, in accordance with another embodiment, conversational framing techniques are provided. During speaker tracking, when two local participants are addressing each other, a method is provided to show a close-up framing showing both participants. By evaluating the direction participants are looking and a speaker history, it is determined if there is a local discussion going on, and an appropriate framing is selected to give far-end participants the most contextually rich experience.

Claim (Index 8):
An apparatus comprising:\n a network interface unit that enables communication over a network; and a processor coupled to the network interface unit, the processor configured to:\n detect a plurality of participants within a field of view of a video conference endpoint; \n detect a first participant of the plurality of participants of the video conference endpoint as an active speaker; \n determine if the first participant is facing a second participant of the plurality of participants based on an output of a video camera of the video conference endpoint; \n determine if the second participant is facing the first participant based on the output of the video camera of the video conference endpoint; \n calculate a proximity between the first participant and the second participant; and \n alter a framing of the video output of the video camera of the video conference endpoint to frame the first participant and the second participant when the proximity between the first participant and the second participant is within a predetermined threshold.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 34.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.61728
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15581120', '15258600', '11490906', '13105719', '13105684']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6111598630967907
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5140050656908308
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6014443833561948
- Mean Citation Score: 205.549126
- Max Citation Score: 309.88632
- Similarity Product: 231.35339717449665

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

Dataset: test