METHODS OF GENERATING VISUAL COMPOSITION FOR MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCE EVENT Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC H04N7/15 H04L12/18 

FIELD: radio engineering, communication.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to a multimedia conferencing system which displays different types of media content using various graphical user interface windows or views. An apparatus for managing meetings in a multimedia conferencing system comprises a visual composition component operative to generate a visual composition for a multimedia conference event. The visual composition component may comprise a video decoder module operative to decode multiple media streams for a multimedia conference event; an active participant detector module operative to detect a participant in a decoded media stream as an active speaker; a media stream manager module operative to map the decoded media stream with the active speaker to an active display frame and the other decoded media streams to non-active display frames; and a visual composition generator module operative to generate a visual composition with a participant list having the active and non-active display frames positioned in a predetermined order.

EFFECT: improved identification of different types participants of a meeting in a virtual environment.

14 cl, 6 dwg