Today’s Patent – Virtual Conference View for Video Calling

The said invention (US11546550B2) was invented by Marc Andre Leon Pollefeys on 25^th September 2020. Currently; it stands assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC

A video calling method involves a server receiving segmented video streams from various client devices, each stream showing a different participant in the call. The server recognizes priority parameters for each participant and ranks them based on their cumulative priority.

These video streams are then composited into a virtual conference view that positions participants according to their rank, prominently displaying those with higher priorities. This virtual view is subsequently sent to the client devices for real-time communication.