公开(公告)号：US20130229483A1

公开(公告)日：2013-09-05

申请号：US13868091

申请日：2013-04-22

申请人： Gina D. Venolia ,  George R. Robertson ,  John C. Tang ,  David M. Sirkin ,  Bongshin Lee

发明人： Gina D. Venolia ,  George R. Robertson ,  John C. Tang ,  David M. Sirkin ,  Bongshin Lee

IPC分类号： H04N7/15

CPC分类号： H04N7/15 ,  G06K9/00315 ,  H04N7/142 ,  H04N7/147 ,  H04N2007/145

摘要： A communication system is described herein which provides an indicator that helps hub participants of a meeting (or other environmental setting) determine a direction of attention of a satellite participant (who is not physically present at the meeting). The indicator can be implemented as a mechanical pointer, a solid-state display mechanism, a rotating display mechanism, a display mechanism which presents visual information that reflects directionality, and so on. The communication system can assess the directionality of the satellite participant based on any combination of control inputs from explicit input mechanism(s) and/or implicit input mechanism(s). The communication system can also choose between explicit and/or implicit control of the indicator based on at least one selection criterion.

摘要翻译： 本文描述了一种通信系统，其提供帮助会议（或其他环境设置）的中心参与者确定卫星参与者的注意方向的指示符（谁不在会议中实际存在）。 指示器可以实现为机械指针，固态显示机构，旋转显示机构，呈现反映方向性的视觉信息的显示机构等。 通信系统可以基于来自显式输入机制和/或隐式输入机制的控制输入的任何组合来评估卫星参与者的方向性。 通信系统还可以基于至少一个选择标准来在指示符的显式和/或隐式控制之间进行选择。