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Speaker anticipation

US10477148B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Cisco Technology, Inc. · US

Inventors

Paul G. Bright-Thomas · Wokingham, GB
Nathan Buckles · McKinney, US
Keith Griffin · Oranmore, IE
Eric Chen · Hsinchu, TW
Manikandan Kesavan · Campbell, US
Plamen Nedeltchev · San Jose, US
Hugo Latapie · Long Beach, US
Enzo Fenoglio · Issy-les-Moulineaux, FR

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 11, 2017
Grant date	Nov 12, 2019
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 11, 2037

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04N7/152
WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed for anticipating a video switch to accommodate a new speaker in a video conference comprising a real time video stream captured by a camera local to a first videoconference endpoint is analyzed according to at least one speaker anticipation model. The speaker anticipation model predicts that a new speaker is about to speak. Video of the anticipated new speaker is sent to the conferencing server in response to a request for the video on the anticipated new speaker from the conferencing server. Video of the anticipated new speaker is distributed to at least a second videoconference endpoint.

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