Software based whiteboard capture solution for conference room meetings

摘要

Whiteboard contents are captured through a combination of hardware and software components such as a webcam and a capture application executed in a PC or a video conference system components. The captured content can be stored, used in an online meeting, processed, made available or transmitted to participants and others.

主权项

1. A method to be executed at least in part in a computing device for capturing whiteboard content, the method comprising:
determining whether a background color of the image is non-white; when the background color is determined to be non-white, determining whether the capture device has parameters that are configurable; when the capture device is determined to have parameters that are configurable:
configuring the parameters to remove the non-white background from images obtained by the capture device, thereby yielding whiteboard content; capturing whiteboard content through an image capture device; locally caching the captured content; when the capture device is determined to have parameters that are not configurable:
allowing a user to select between two filtering modes for the captured content, including:
a first filtering mode in which the captured content is modified to remove moving objects, persons and a non-white background, thereby leaving the whiteboard content; anda second filtering mode in which the captured content is unmodified; presenting the captured content to a user;in response to receiving a user indication for transmitting the captured content to at least one recipient, transmitting the captured content to the at least one recipient through one of a default transmission mode and a user-defined transmission mode;in response to receiving a user indication to store the captured content, storing the captured content in at least one of a local data store and a remote data store; anddeleting the locally cached captured content.