Abstract: In a case where there are a plurality of query destination servers, the number of queries to determine a connection destination network is reduced and the load in call processing is reduced. The call processing server 1 includes a destination resolution storage unit 13 that stores a telephone number and a query order of a query made to at least one server until a connection destination network for the telephone number is acquired; and a call processing unit 11 that acquires a query order corresponding to a telephone number of an incoming-call destination specified in a call request from the destination resolution storage unit, makes a query to a server set at the end of the acquired query order to acquire a connection destination network for the telephone number of the incoming-call destination, and transmits the call request to the connection destination network.

Abstract: A Mobile Lawyer system includes a 360 degree HD video camera configured for mounting on a vehicle; a display screen configured for mounting inside the passenger compartment of a vehicle; and a Mobile Lawyer App downloaded and installed on a mobile telephone in communication with the video camera and display screen, configured, upon command from a user, to notify an attorney located remotely via a cellular and/or computer network, and to display a video image of the remote attorney on the display screen (or the screen of the mobile telephone), and to live-stream a 360 degree video captured by the video camera to the Internet for viewing by the remote attorney and for cloud storage. The introduction of a lawyer on-demand into a police encounter can help to defuse and de-escalate the situation. The lawyer can serve as a live observer, witness, and intermediary who can provide live legal guidance to the user.

Abstract: A Mobile Lawyer system includes a 360 degree HD video camera configured for mounting on a vehicle; a display screen configured for mounting inside the passenger compartment of a vehicle; and a Mobile Lawyer App downloaded and installed on a mobile telephone in communication with the video camera and display screen, configured, upon command from a user, to notify an attorney located remotely via a cellular and/or computer network, and to display a video image of the remote attorney on the display screen (or the screen of the mobile telephone), and to live-stream a 360 degree video captured by the video camera to the Internet for viewing by the remote attorney and for cloud storage. The introduction of a lawyer on-demand into a police encounter can help to defuse and de-escalate the situation. The lawyer can serve as a live observer, witness, and intermediary who can provide live legal guidance to the user.

Abstract: An image display method applicable to a video conferencing system with a wide-angle webcam is disclosed. The wide-angle webcam is used to capture a panoramic image having an aspect ratio greater than or equal to 2:1. The method includes: framing multiple regions of interest (ROIs) according to the panoramic image, each ROI having at least one of attributes; selecting one from predetermined frame layouts as an output frame layout according to whether to insert a portion of the panoramic image and attributes, positions and the number of the ROIs; and inserting at least one of the portion of the panoramic image and the ROIs into corresponding windows in the output frame layout to form a composite frame according to the attributes of the ROIs.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for a dynamic network identification to facilitate a selection of a desired audio. A premises (e.g., a public bar) may have a plurality of display devices (e.g., television screens) outputting videos associated with a plurality of content items (e.g., television programs). A computing device may assign an audio data of each of the content items to be transmitted over a separate wireless network. A user may be able to listen to the audio of a desired content item by causing a user device to join a wireless network assigned to transmit an audio data of the desired content item. The wireless network may be reused to transmit a different audio data. A network identifier of the wireless network may be renamed to indicate the different audio data. The network identifier may be based on metadata associated with a content item.

Abstract: A system and method for an interactive digitally rendered avatar of a subject person is described. In one embodiment, a method of providing an interactive digital avatar of a subject person includes transmitting a video featuring a subject person to a plurality of users via a first communication format. The method also includes receiving, from at least one user of the plurality of users, a request to initiate an interactive session with an avatar of the subject person. The method further includes engaging in the interactive session between the avatar of the subject person and the at least one user via a second communication format that is different than the first communication format.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing system may receive input data from several artificial-reality systems used by participants to participate in a virtual meeting. The input data may include audio data and sensor data corresponding to the participants while they are in the virtual meeting. The computing system may determine meeting characteristics based on input data. The meeting characteristics may include individual behavioral characteristics for each participant and communal characteristics associated with the participants as a group. The computing system may determine an action to improve a meeting characteristic according to a predetermined criteria and generate an instruction for performing the action. The computing system may send the instruction to one or more of the artificial-reality systems used by the participants. The instructions may be configured to cause an application running on each of the artificial-reality systems that receives the instruction to perform the action.

Abstract: A system connected to an external computing device running a program thereon alert a third party during an emergency, the system including a discreet notification device removably disposed on at least a portion of a steering wheel of a vehicle running the program thereon, the discreet notification device including a body, a primary emergency button disposed on at least a portion of the body to transmit an emergency signal to the external computing device to make an emergency call based on determination of at least one of an intentional press and an accidental press of the primary emergency button, and a deactivation button disposed on at least a portion of the body, and a foot notification device disposed on at least a portion of a floor of the vehicle running the program thereon, the foot notification device including another body, and a secondary emergency button removably disposed on at least a portion of the another body to transmit the emergency signal to the external computing device to make the emergen

Abstract: A dual sensory input speech detection method includes receiving, at a first time, a first video image input of a conference participant of the video conference and a first audio input of the conference participant; communicating the first video image input to the video conference; identifying the first video image input as a first facial image of the conference participant; determining, based on the first facial image, the first video image input indicates the conference participant is in a speaking state; identifying the first audio input as a first speech sound; determining, while in the speaking state, the first speech sound originates from the conference participant; and communicating the first audio input to an audio output for the video conference.

Abstract: A Mobile Lawyer system includes a 360 degree HD video camera configured for mounting inside the passenger compartment of a vehicle; a display screen configured for mounting inside the passenger compartment of a vehicle; and a Mobile Lawyer App downloaded and installed on a mobile telephone in communication with the video camera and display screen, configured, upon command from a user, to notify an attorney located remotely via a cellular and/or computer network, and to display a video image of the remote attorney on the display screen (or the screen of the mobile telephone), and to live-stream a 360 degree video captured by the video camera to the Internet for viewing by the remote attorney and for cloud storage. The introduction of a lawyer on-demand into a police encounter can help to defuse and de-escalate the situation. The lawyer can serve as a live observer, witness, and intermediary who can provide live legal guidance to the user.

Abstract: The method for receiving audio data by a device for receiving audio data, according to the present disclosure, comprises the steps of: receiving, from a device for transmitting audio data, playback information of three-dimensional audio content and an encoded three-dimensional audio signal of the three-dimensional audio content; decoding the encoded three-dimensional audio signal; and rendering the decoded three-dimensional audio signal on the basis of the playback information of the three-dimensional audio content, wherein the playback information comprises information about a transition effect of the three-dimensional audio content.

Abstract: A robot operating in an environment provides cues to users. These cues provide information to the user as to operation of the robot. Some cues may involve physical movement of at least a portion of the robot. For example, as the robot passes a user, the robot may tilt a display head up and down to simulate a nodding motion. The cues may comprise one or more motions of one or more parts of the robot. The cues may also comprise visual output, such as graphics, pictures, text, and so forth, being presented on a display device of the robot, or changing the color or brightness of a light. In some implementations, the cues may include audio output, such as sounds.

Abstract: The technology disclosed herein enables selective endpoint notification of incoming communications directed to a set of endpoints. In a particular embodiment, a method provides, in a communication control system, receiving a first request to establish a communication session with at least one endpoint in first set of endpoints. The first set of endpoints comprises two or more endpoints and the request is directed to the first set of endpoints. The method further provides identifying a first subset of the first set of endpoints based on application of one or more override rules to the first request. The override rules define conditions wherein fewer than all of the first set of endpoints should be notified of the first request. The method also provides notifying the first subset about the first request.

Abstract: Video communications of residents of a controlled-environment facility are monitored to detect instances of inappropriate behavior within the video, such as nudity. Residents may participate in live video visitation sessions with non-residents. Video recordings are generated for each video feed of the live video visitation. During the live video visitation, indications of inappropriate behavior displayed in the live video are detected. If indications of inappropriate behavior are detected in the live video, the recorded video is annotated to specify the locations of the detected indications in the recording. Upon completion of the video visitation session, post-processing of the recorded video detects additional indications of inappropriate behavior. The additional indications may be detected at proximal locations to the annotations and may be detected based on sampling frames of the recording to detect changes in the occurrence of pixels having a skin tone color.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a supplementary processing unit configured to perform supplementary processing of supplementing communication between users at a plurality of points in accordance with a context of interaction between the users at the respective points in a telepresence system configured to perform bidirectional image and sound communication for the communication.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a fitness guidance method, a device and a storage medium. The method includes: collecting a face image of a user in real time in response to detecting a sport event of the user; performing recognition on the face image; determining a current sport state of the user based on a face recognition result; and providing a prompt for advising the user based on the current sport state.

Abstract: A computerized method for providing a sentiment score by evaluating expressions of participants during a video meeting is provided herein. The computerized method comprising: a Sentiment Analysis (SA) module. The SA module is: (i) retrieving one or more recordings of a video meeting from the database of video meeting recordings of each participant in the video meeting and associating the one or more recordings with a participant; (ii) dividing each retrieved recording into segments; (iii) processing the segments in a Facial Expression Recognition (FER) system to associate each segment with a timestamped sequence of expressions for each participant in the video meeting; and (iv) processing each segment in an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) having a dense layer, by applying a prebuilt and pretrained deep learning model, to yield a sentiment score for each statement for each participant.

Abstract: A system provides automated transitions between presenters of a communication session. During a meeting, a system can provide a user interface that includes a primary presenter region configured to display a rendering of a presenter and the presenter's shared content. The user interface can also provide an audience region, which may include a number of individual video streams of audience members arranged in virtual environment. When the system determines that an individual audience member raises their hand, the system generates a graphical notification indicating that the person raised their hand. The system can also automatically add that individual audience member to a presenter queue. When the first presenter completes their presentation, the system can automatically transition the user listed in the presenter queue to the primary presenter region or a secondary presenter region. The system can also automatically change permissions for users that initiate a transition to a presenter role.

Abstract: Technologies for audiovisual communication include an audiovisual server and a number of audiovisual client devices, including a presenter device and a number of audience devices. Each audience device captures an audiovisual stream and transmits the audiovisual stream to the audiovisual server. Each audience device also captures sensor input data such as eye tracking data or facial expression data and transmits abstracted sensor input data to the audiovisual server. The abstracted sensor input data may be based on the captured audiovisual stream. The audiovisual server determines an interestingness rating associated with each audience device based on the sensor input data, and selects one or more audiovisual streams based on the interestingness ratings. The audiovisual server transmits the selected audiovisual streams to the presenter device. The audiovisual server may update the interestingness rating algorithm based on feedback from the presenter device or the audience devices.

Abstract: A tool for providing a secure communication channel during three-way communications. The tool initiates a three-way communication from a user device, wherein the three-way communication is a connection between a user, a third-party interpreter, and a service provider. The tool enables a passthrough function of a secured switch for transmitting non-privileged data during the three-way communication. The tool determines whether privileged data is to be transmitted during the three-way communication. Responsive to a determination that privileged data is to be transmitted during the three-way communication, the tool mutes an audio communication component. The tool activates a bypass function of the secured switch for transmitting the privileged data on an alternate audio communication component.