PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15918214
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["348", "014030"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods are described for detecting and remedying potential incongruence in a video conference. A camera of a video conferencing system may capture video images of a conference room. A processor of the video conferencing system may identify locations of a plurality of participants within an image plane of a video image. Using face and shape detection, a location of a center point of each identified participant's torso may be calculated. A region of congruence bounded by key parallax lines may be calculated, the key parallax lines being a subset of all parallax lines running through the center points of each identified participant. When the audio device location is not within the region of congruence, audio captured by an audio device may be adjusted to reduce effects of incongruence when the captured audio is replayed at a far end of the video conference.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for detecting and remedying potential incongruence in a video conference, wherein the video conference video capture is provided by a camera of a video conferencing system and audio capture is provided by an audio device, the method comprising:\n capturing, by the camera, video images of a conference room; identifying, by a processor of the video conferencing system, locations of each of a plurality of participants within an image plane of a video image of the captured video images; calculating, by the processor using face and shape detection, a location of a center point of each identified participant's torso; calculating, by the processor, a region of congruence bounded by key parallax lines, the key parallax lines being a subset of all parallax lines running through the center points of each identified participant; identifying, by the video conferencing system, a location of the audio device within the conference room; comparing the indentified location of the audio device to the calculated region of congruence; and when the audio device location is not within the region of congruence, adjusting, by the processor, audio captured by the audio device, the adjusting comprising adapting a captured audio signal to reduce effects of incongruence when the captured audio is replayed at a far end of the video conference.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15838728', '15681923', '10633266', '13354152', '10176494']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6330650424975469
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.524559457388301
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6222144839866223
- Mean Citation Score: 267.402038
- Max Citation Score: 347.62302
- Similarity Product: 259.42894015888453

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

Dataset: test