Muting a videoconference

• US 9,749,584 B2
• Filed: 04/28/2014
• Issued: 08/29/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Martinez, Juan, So, Chi, McClellan, James
• Primary Examiner(s): TIEU, BINH KIEN
• Application Number:
  US15/306,666
• Publication Number:
  US 20170048490A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,219 Days
• Field of Search: 348 1401, 348 1407, 348 1408, 348 1409, 348 141
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/16 Human faces, e.g. facial parts, sketches or expressions
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/007 reproducing continuously a part of the information, i.e. repeating
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/61 based on recognised objects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/152 Multipoint control units therefor

Abstract

A video conferencing system conducting a videoconference comprising a computing device comprising a processor that, upon receiving input to mute the videoconference from a first participant of the videoconference creates a looping video and displays the looping video to a number of participants of the videoconference and converts detected speech of a number of participants of the videoconference into text and displays the text on a monitor of the computing device.

Claims

1. A video conferencing system to conduct a videoconference, the video conferencing system comprising:

a computing device comprising a processor that, upon receiving input to mute the videoconference from a first participant of the videoconference;

creates a looping video and displays the looping video to a number of participants of the videoconference, wherein creation of the looping video comprises receiving a video stream from a video camera communicatively coupled to the computing device for a predetermined period of time, and further wherein the video camera uses face and body recognition to determine if the first participant is in front of the camera and when the first participant is in front of the camera, the camera begins to record the video stream for the looping video; and

converts detected speech of a number of participants of the videoconference into text and displays the text on a monitor of the computing device.

2. The videoconferencing system of claim 1, wherein the video camera stops recording the looping video only when it is determined that the first participant is in the same location in front of the video camera as when the video camera began recording the looping video.

3. The videoconferencing system of claim 1, wherein the processor unmutes the videoconferencing system when the first participant'"'"'s voice is detected by a microphone communicatively coupled to the computing device.

4. The videoconferencing system of claim 1, wherein the processor causes an alert to be generated when a word within the text converted from the speech is detected;

wherein the alert is an audio alert, a visual alert, or combinations thereof.

5. A method of muting a videoconference on a computing device, comprising:

with a processor of the computing device, receiving input to mute the videoconference from a first participant of the videoconference;

creating a looping video by receiving a video stream from a video camera communicatively coupled to the computing device for a predetermined period of time, wherein the video camera uses face and body recognition to determine if the first participant is in front of the camera and when the first participant is in front of the camera, the camera begins to record the video stream for the looping video;

presenting the looping video to participants of the videoconference;

recognizing speech of participants of the videoconference;

converting speech of participants of the videoconference into text; and

displaying text on a monitor of the computing device.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the video camera stops recording the looping video only when it is determined that the first participant is in the same location in front of the video camera as when the video camera began recording the looping video.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the processor unmutes the videoconferencing system when the first participant'"'"'s voice is detected by a microphone communicatively coupled to the computing device.

8. The method of claim 5, further comprising generating an alert when a word within the text converted from the speech is detected;

wherein the alert is an audio alert, a visual alert, or combinations thereof.

9. A computer program product for muting a videoconference on a computing device, the computer program product comprising:

a non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising computer usable program code embodied therewith, the computer usable program code comprising computer usable program code to, when executed by a processor;

receive input to mute the videoconference from a first participant of a videoconference;

recognize a body image of the first participant, record a looping video of the first participant, and present the looping video to participants of the videoconference, wherein creation of the looping video is completed by receiving a video stream from a video camera communicatively coupled to the computing device for a predetermined period of time;

recognize speech of participants of the videoconference;

convert speech of participants of the videoconference into text; and

display text on a monitor of the computing device and alert the first participant when text predefined by the first participant is displayed on the monitor;

and further wherein;

the video camera uses face and body recognition to determine if the first participant is in front of the camera and when the first participant is in front of the camera, the camera begins to record the video stream for the looping video;

the video camera stops recording the looping video only when it is determined that the first participant is in the same location in front of the video camera as when the video camera began recording the looping video; and

the video camera stops recording the looping video only when it is determined that the first participant is in the same location in front of the video camera as when the video camera began recording the looping video.

10. A video conferencing system comprising:

a computing device comprising a processor that, upon receiving input to mute a videoconference from a first participant of the videoconference;

creates a looping video, wherein creation of the looping video comprises receiving a video stream from a video camera communicatively coupled to the computing device during the video conference, and wherein the video camera is to begin to record the video stream for the looping video based on a determination by the video camera using face and body recognition that the first participant is in front of the camera;

displays the looping video to a number of participants of the videoconference; and

converts detected speech of a number of participants of the videoconference into text and displays the text on a monitor of the computing device.