Room conferencing system with heat map annotation of documents

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10015445-B1
Application number	US-201715646900-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Jul 11, 2017
Priority date	Oct 13, 2014
Publication date	Jul 3, 2018
Grant date	Jul 3, 2018

Abstract

A method includes capturing a first image at a first time using a camera; processing the first image to identify a representation of an object in the first image; storing the first image as an event forming a navigable marker in a conference room tracking system; measuring one or more of a room sound and a room activity level at a time associated with capture of the first image; generating a heat marker representing a level of the room sound or the room activity level; and storing the heat marker in association with the event.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
capturing an image or video from a digital display at a first time;
processing the image or video to identify a representation of an object in the image or video;
storing the image or video as an event forming a navigable marker in a tracking system for an area including the digital display;
measuring sound in the area and determining from the sound an emotion or contention level at a time associated with capture of the image or video;
generating a marker representing the emotion or contention level; and
storing the marker in association with the event.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
analyzing the sound for words and phrases; and
performing biometric voice analysis to identify a primary speaker associated with the sound.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:
assigning an emotion to the primary speaker based on the words and volume levels of the words.

4. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:
tracking a time spent at the emotion or contention level.

5. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the computer-readable storage medium including instructions that when executed by a device including a processor and memory, uniquely configure the memory and cause the device to:
capture an image or video from a digital display at a first time;
process the image or video to identify a representation of an object in the image or video;
store the image or video as an event forming a navigable marker in a tracking system for an area including the digital display;
measure sound in the area and determine from the sound an emotion or contention level at a time associated with capture of the image or video;
generate a marker representing the emotion or contention level; and
store the marker in association with the event.

6. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 5 , wherein the instructions further configure the memory to cause the device to:
analyze the sound for words and phrases; and
perform biometric voice analysis to identify a primary speaker associated with the sound.

7. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 6 , wherein the instructions further configure the memory to cause the device to:
assign an emotion to the primary speaker based on the words and volume levels of the words.

8. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 6 , wherein the instructions further configure the memory to cause the device to:
track a time spent at the emotion or contention level.

Assignees

• Xevo Inc

Inventors

• Ludwig John
• Tong Richard

Classifications

• G06T7/20 Primary

  Analysis of motion (motion estimation for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals H04N19/43, H04N19/51) · CPC title

• H04N7/15 Primary

  Conference systems · CPC title

• G06V30/10

  Character recognition · CPC title

• G06K9/18

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04N7/183

  for receiving images from a single remote source · CPC title