Multi-participant live communication user interface

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12452389-B2
Application number	US-202318498779-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 31, 2023
Priority date	May 7, 2018
Publication date	Oct 21, 2025
Grant date	Oct 21, 2025

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to electronic devices and techniques for providing live communication sessions involving multiple participants. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays a live video communication user interface of a live video communication application that includes representations of participants of a live video communication session.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic device, comprising:
a display;
one or more processors; and
memory storing one or more programs configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for:
displaying a live video communication user interface that includes concurrently displaying a representation of a first participant in a live video communication session, a representation of a second participant in the live video communication session, and a representation of a third participant in the live video communication session,
wherein the representation of the first participant overlaps the representation of the second participant and the representation of the second participant overlaps the representation of the third participant;

while displaying the live video communication user interface, receiving data indicating that an activity level of the second participant in the live video communication session has increased above an activity level of the first participant in the live video communication session; and
in response to receiving the data indicating that the activity level of the second participant in the live video communication session has increased above the activity level of the first participant in the live video communication session:
changing a size and/or position of the representation of the first participant in the live video communication user interface;
changing a size and/or position of the representation of the second participant in the live video communication user interface; and
changing a size and/or position of the representation of the third participant in the live video communication user interface, wherein:
after changing the size and/or position of the representation of the first participant in the live video communication user interface, the changed representation of the first participant occupies at least a portion of a region that was occupied by the representation of the first participant in the live video communication user interface before changing at least one of the size or the position of the representation of the first participant;
after changing the size and/or position of the representation of the second participant in the live video communication user interface, the changed representation of the second participant occupies at least a portion of a region that was occupied by the representation of the second participant in the live video communication user interface before changing at least one of the size or the position of the representation of the second participant;
after changing the size and/or position of the representation of the third participant in the live video communication user interface, the changed representation of the third participant occupies at least a portion of a region that was occupied by the representation of the third participant in the live video communication user interface before changing at least one of the size or the position of the representation of the third participant; and
after changing the sizes and/or positions of the representation of the first participant, the representation of the second participant, and the representation of the third participant, the representation of the first participant overlaps the representation of the second participant and the representation of the second participant overlaps the representation of the third participant.

2. The electronic device of claim 1 , the one or more programs further including instructions for:
in response to receiving the data indicating that the activity level of the second participant in the live video communication session has increased above the activity level of the first participant in the live video communication session:
the size of the representation of the first participant in the live video communication user interface is changed;
the size of the representation of the second participant in the live video communication user interface is changed; and
the size of the representation of the third participant in the live video communication user interface is changed.

3. The electronic device of claim 1 , the one or more programs further including instructions for:
in response to receiving the data indicating that the activity level of the second participant in the live video communication session has increased above the activity level of the first participant in the live video communication session:
the position of the representation of the first participant in the live video communication user interface is changed;
the position of the representation of the second participant in the live video communication user interface is changed; and
the position of the representation of the third participant in the live video communication user interface is changed.

4. The electronic device of claim 1 , the one or more programs further including instructions for:
displaying a representation of a fourth participant in the live video communication user interface; and
in response to receiving the data indicating that the activity level of the second participant in the live video communication session has increased above the activity level of the first participant in the live video communication session, changing a size and/or position of the representation of the fourth participant in the live video communication user interface.

5. The electronic device of claim 1 , the one or more programs further including instructions for:
after changing the size and/or position of the representation of the first participant in the live video communication user interface, receiving second data indicating that an activity level of the first participant in the live video communication session has increased above the activity level of the second participant in the live video communication session; and
in response to receiving the second data indicating that an activity level of the first participant in the live video communication session has increased above the activity level of the second participant in the live video communication session:
changing the size and/or position of the representation of the first participant in the live video communication user interface;
changing the size and/or position of the representation of the second participant in the live video communication user interface; and
maintaining the size and position of the representation of the third participant in the live video communication user interface.

6. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the activity level of at least the first participant is based on an audio and/or video feed received from a device of the first participant.

7. The electronic device of claim 1 , the one or more programs further including instructions for:
further in response to receiving the data indicating that the activity level of the second participant in the live video communication session has increased above the activity level of the first participant in the live video communication session:
emphasizing a visual indication of the representation of the second participant in the live video communication user interface; and
deemphasizing a visual indication of the representation of the first participant in the live video communication user interface.

8. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein:
prior to receiving the data indicating that the activity level of the second participant in the live video communication session has increased above the activity level of the first participant in the live video communication session:
the representation of the first participant is displayed at a first size; and
the representation of the second participant is displayed at a second size smaller than the first size; a

Assignees

• Apple Inc

Inventors

• Van Os Marcel
• Broughton Lee S
• Callaway Peter
• Caro Pablo F
• Chang Jae Woo
• Dryer Allison
• Federighi Craig M
• Garcia Robert
• Lemay Stephen O
• Louch John
• Pham Hoan

Classifications

• H04N5/2628

  Alteration of picture size, shape, position or orientation, e.g. zooming, rotation, rolling, perspective, translation · CPC title

• H04L51/046

  Interoperability with other network applications or services · CPC title

• G06T2207/30196

  Human being; Person · CPC title

• G06T2207/10016

  Video; Image sequence · CPC title

• G06T7/20

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