US 12,231,801 B2
Meeting video feed fusion
Mengnan Wang, Chapel Hill, NC (US); John W Nicholson, Rougemont, NC (US); Daryl C Cromer, Raleigh, NC (US); and Howard Locker, Cary, NC (US)
Assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore (SG)
Filed by Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore (SG)
Filed on Mar. 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/710,645.
Application 17/710,645 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/701,958, filed on Mar. 23, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0308602 A1, Sep. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 5/265 (2006.01); H04L 65/403 (2022.01); H04N 5/262 (2006.01); H04N 23/698 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 5/265 (2013.01) [H04L 65/403 (2013.01); H04N 5/2628 (2013.01); H04N 23/698 (2023.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, the method comprising:
receiving, at a remote video feed fusion system, an indication of a meeting facilitated through a meeting application allowing access to participants in a location other than a location of a host of the meeting and supporting video transmissions between connected participants;
identifying, using the remote video feed fusion system, a plurality of devices each having at least one image capture device and within the location of the host;
capturing, using the remote video feed fusion system, a plurality of video feeds of the location of the host using the plurality of devices;
creating, using the remote video feed fusion system, a fused video feed of the location of the host from the plurality of video feeds, wherein the creating comprises ignoring attributes of the plurality of video feeds and stitching the fused video feed based upon image areas of the plurality of video feeds, wherein identifying images areas of the plurality of video feeds to be stitched together comprises identifying at least one attribute of a device corresponding to at least one of the plurality of video feeds based upon information captured in real-time from the device; and
transmitting, using the remote video feed fusion system, the fused video feed to at least one participant accessing the meeting from a location other than the location of the host.