US 11,902,710 B2
Automated rule generation and virtual background selection for video communications
Shane Paul Springer, Manchester, MI (US); Ryan Lee Weddle, Alexandria, VA (US); Servio Lee, San Francisco, CA (US); and Irina Cohen, Paramus, NJ (US)
Assigned to Zoom Video Communications, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Zoom Video Communications, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/246,570.
Prior Publication US 2022/0353474 A1, Nov. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 7/15 (2006.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 7/157 (2013.01) [H04L 12/1818 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising at least one processor configured to perform operations of:
establishing a connection to a calendar account of a first user, the calendar account including informational details of prior meetings;
evaluating the information details about the prior meetings;
determining, based on evaluating the information details about the prior meetings, that a same virtual background was used as a virtual background during video communications for multiple meetings of the prior meetings;
identifying common information details in respective information details of the multiple meetings;
automatically generating at least one virtual background selection rule based on the common informational details of each of the multiple meetings of the prior meetings and in response to the determination that the same virtual background was used as the virtual background during the video communications for the multiple meetings of the prior meetings, wherein the at least one virtual background selection rule is configured to use the same virtual background that was used as the virtual background during the video communications for the multiple meetings;
storing the at least one virtual background selection rule, wherein the one virtual background selection rule comprises the common information details and the same virtual background;
determining that information details of a planned meeting matches the common information details; and
in response determining that information details of the planned meeting matches the common information details, using the same virtual background of the at least one virtual background selection rule for display by a first user device during the planned meeting.