Television – Two-way video and voice communication – Conferencing
Reexamination Certificate
2004-10-30
2009-10-06
Woo, Stella L (Department: 2614)
Television
Two-way video and voice communication
Conferencing
C348S014060
Reexamination Certificate
active
07598975
ABSTRACT:
Faces of speakers in a meeting or conference are automatically detected and facial images corresponding to each speaker are stored in a faces database. A timeline is created to graphically identify when each speaker is speaking during playback of a recording of the meeting. Instead of generically identifying each speaker in the timeline, a facial image is shown to identify each speaker associated with the timeline.
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