HUDDLY AS (20240414437). AUTONOMOUS VIDEO CONFERENCING SYSTEM WITH VIRTUAL DIRECTOR ASSISTANCE

AUTONOMOUS VIDEO CONFERENCING SYSTEM WITH VIRTUAL DIRECTOR ASSISTANCE

Organization Name

HUDDLY AS

Inventor(s)

Jon Tore Hafstad of Oslo (NO)

Aida C. Lopez of Oslo (NO)

Elena You of Oslo (NO)

Kai Alexander Wig of Oslo (NO)

Lars Erling Stensen of Oslo (NO)

Mona Kleven Lauritzen of Oslo (NO)

Stian Selbek of Koppang (NO)

Tamás Becsei of Oslo (NO)

Niklas Schmidt of Oslo (NO)

Therese Byhring of Oslo (NO)

Vebjørn Boge Nilssen of Oslo (NO)

Patrik Kvarme Hansen of Oslo (NO)

Knut Helge Teppan of Asker (NO)

Stein Ove Eriksen of Oslo (NO)

Vegard Hammer of Tarnasen (NO)

Bendik Kvamstad of Oslo (NO)

Jan Tore Korneliussen of Oslo (NO)

Håvard Pederson Alstad of Oslo (NO)

Oleg Jakobsen of Vinterbro (NO)

AUTONOMOUS VIDEO CONFERENCING SYSTEM WITH VIRTUAL DIRECTOR ASSISTANCE

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20240414437 titled 'AUTONOMOUS VIDEO CONFERENCING SYSTEM WITH VIRTUAL DIRECTOR ASSISTANCE

Original Abstract Submitted

systems and methods are provided to power video conferencing and remote collaboration with subsymbolic and symbolic artificial intelligence. the autonomous video conferencing systems of this disclosure include one main smart camera and multiple peripheral smart cameras, optionally coupled with one or more smart sensors. each smart camera is equipped with a vision pipeline supported by machine learning to detect objects and their interactions as well as related changes in gesture and posture, and a virtual director adapted to apply a predetermined rule set consistent with television studio production principles. the main camera is adapted to select and update a focus video stream in real time under the direction of its virtual director and stream the updated focus stream to a user computer. methods for creating an automated television studio production for a variety of conferencing spaces and special-purpose scenarios with virtual director assistance are provided.