METHODS OF MANAGING WHITEBOARD FOR MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCE EVENTS Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC G06F15/16 G06F3/02 

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: apparatus comprises a whiteboard manager component which may comprise an image quantiser module to receive an image of a writing surface with pen strokes and quantise each pixel of the image into a predetermined number of colours, an attribute extractor module communicatively connected to the image quantiser module, the attribute extractor module configured to extract stroke attribute information for the pen strokes from the quantised pixels, and a whiteboard interface module communicatively connected to the attribute extractor module, the whiteboard interface module configured to send the stroke attribute information to a meeting console for rendering as digital pen strokes on a digital writing surface.

EFFECT: easy collaboration of users on a whiteboard for a multimedia conference event, avoiding the need to modify pens or the whiteboard, low consumption of communication frequency resources.

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