US 12,335,060 B1
Audio focus in a virtual meeting based on eye tracking
Robert Allen Ryskamp, Mountain View, CA (US); and Adam Justin Spooner, Greensboro, NC (US)
Assigned to Zoom Communications, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Zoom Video Communications, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on May 4, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/143,441.
Application 18/143,441 is a continuation of application No. 17/876,701, filed on Jul. 29, 2022, abandoned.
Int. Cl. H04L 12/18 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 12/1831 (2013.01) [G06F 3/013 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
joining, from a client device, a virtual meeting hosted by a virtual meeting provider, the virtual meeting comprising a plurality of participants;
displaying the virtual meeting on the display of the client device;
receiving an eye tracking signal from an eye tracking sensor, the eye tracking signal associated with a first user of the client device;
autocorrecting the eye tracking sensor, where autocorrecting further comprises triangulating between the position of the eye tracking sensor, the location of the display on which the first user is focused, and a position of the first user;
determining, based at least in part on the eye tracking signal, a location of the display on which the first user is focused;
identifying a first audio stream of a plurality of audio streams associated with the virtual meeting based at least in part on the location; and
responsive to identifying the first audio stream, increasing a volume of the first audio stream relative to the rest of the plurality of audio streams.