US 12,483,673 B2
Reducing local bandwidth usage for a video call having multiple second participants based on directed eye gaze of the local participant
Amit Kumar Agrawal, Bangalore (IN); and Rahul Bharat Desai, Hoffman Estates, IL (US)
Filed by MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC, Wilmington, DE (US)
Filed on Dec. 21, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/392,676.
Prior Publication US 2025/0211703 A1, Jun. 26, 2025
Int. Cl. H04N 7/15 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); H04L 65/403 (2022.01)
CPC H04N 7/15 (2013.01) [G06F 3/013 (2013.01); H04L 65/403 (2013.01); H04N 7/155 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic system comprising:
a communications subsystem that enables the electronic system to connect over a network to a video communication session with at least a first electronic device and a second electronic device used respectively by a first participant and a second participant among multiple second participants to participate in the video communication session with a local participant;
a display that presents visual content;
at least one image capturing device that captures a field of view encompassing at least one eye of the local participant to the video communication session while the local participant is facing the visual content presented by the display; and
a controller communicatively coupled to the communications subsystem, the display, and the at least one image capturing device, and which:
monitors eye gaze direction of the local participant positioned in the field of view of the at least one image capturing device;
receives, via the communications subsystem, and presents, at the display, more than one video feeds of respective participants in the video communication session; and
in response to determining that at least one video feed is not being gazed at by the local participant:
captures a video snippet of each of the at least one video feed; and
presents the video snippet within a participant tile in place of the respective video feed.