The purpose of this project was to bring the atmosphere of a face-to-face smartphone Zoom call to a conference setting. To achieve this, our proposed directional dock on which the smartphone is placed will automatically optimize the orientation of the phone during a video conference meeting or a video call meeting. Our proposed direction dock will contain four microphones that will detect the location of the speaker and turn the dock accordingly such that the phone will face the general direction of the subject. A mounted camera will then use facial detection to center the subject in the frame and make minor adjustments to the phone’s orientation. Our design involves two stepper motors, one for rotating the platform and the other for adjusting the pitch of the phone and the external camera.
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Patrick
Scott
Joseph
Lagasse
Travis
Canfield
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Conference URC
Event Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering (ISE)