Proxy for asynchronous meeting participation

摘要

Embodiments described herein relate to enabling a lightweight way of recording and sharing video messages intended to provide input to a future meeting that cannot be personally attended. A person who cannot attend the meeting pre-records their thoughts and remarks for the meeting as video clips for presentation at the meeting. A physical device with at least a display is presented at the meeting. The physically present participants can play the pre-recorded clips on the device. Video of participants' responses to the clips is recorded and made available so that the represented attendee can view the participants' responses.

主权项

1. A method for asynchronous participation in a meeting, the method comprising:
providing a proxy representative at a physical meeting of participant persons who physically attend the meeting, the proxy representative comprising a graphic displayed on a device at the meeting and representing a represented attendee who does not physically or electronically attend the meeting, the device comprising at least a display and having access during the meeting to a plurality of pre-recorded video clips of the represented attendee, the device configured to associate playback of the pre-recorded video clips at the meeting with respective video segments captured at the meeting, the device further comprising an input device and a video camera that captures video of the physical participant persons during the physical meeting; responsive to activation events triggered by actions of the persons while physically attending the meeting, correspondingly displaying, by the device, the pre-recorded video clips on the display, wherein the activation events correspond to physical manipulations of the input device by the participant persons or correspond to physical actions of the participant persons that are sensed by the input device; and based on the activation events and/or the displaying of the pre-recorded video clips, generating and storing association information comprising associations for each respective playback of a pre-recorded video clip responsive to an activation event, wherein each association (i) associates a beginning of a corresponding pre-recorded video clip displayed per an activation event with a beginning of a corresponding video segment captured during the displaying of the corresponding pre-recorded video clip and wherein a duration of the corresponding video segment is substantially greater than a duration of the corresponding pre-recorded video clip, the video segments comprising video data of the participant persons captured during the physical meeting by the video camera, and wherein each time an event occurs a new corresponding association is generated and added to the association information.