公开(公告)号：US10009568B1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-26

申请号：US15493328

申请日：2017-04-21

Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation

Inventor： Jason Benjamin Ellis ,  Thomas D. Erickson ,  Karin Niemantsverdriet ,  Bin Xu

IPC: H04N7/15 ,  H04N5/445 ,  G06F3/147

CPC classification number: G06F3/147 ,  H04N7/142 ,  H04N7/147 ,  H04N7/15

Abstract: A system and method for displaying visual focus points of meeting participants uses an image capture device to generate a real-time graphical representation of a physical meeting space containing collocated meeting participants. Remote display devices display the real-time graphical representation of the physical meeting space. Each remote display device is associated with a remote meeting participant located at a remote location. A viewpoint monitoring mechanism determines a remote participant visual point of focus within the real-time graphical representation. A remote participant simulator located in the physical meeting space has a unique remote participant representation for each remote meeting participant and a remote participant visual point of focus indicator associated with each remote participant representation to simulate the remote participant visual point of focus.