Overview

InclusiZone for Video - Video Boundary allows users to define the capture range of cameras in a meeting room. By setting boundaries, users can avoid capturing people outside the meeting room or individuals who are not relevant to the meeting. This feature enhances the meeting experience by ensuring participants' focus remains within the video boundary range.

 

Benefits of Video Boundary

• Enhanced Privacy: By setting a video boundary, users can prevent the cameras from capturing individuals not part of the meeting. This safeguards privacy and ensures that sensitive discussions are limited to authorized participants.
• Enhanced Concentration: Video Boundary enhances the concentration of meeting participants by confining their attention within a specific range. Excluding unnecessary distractions it enables individuals to stay focused on the content and attendees within the video boundary.
• Optimal Meeting Experience: By mitigating the risk of capturing irrelevant individuals or external surroundings, the Video Boundary creates a more immersive and engaging meeting environment. 

Supporting Product

• DTEN ME Pro
• DTEN ME
• Minimum DTEN ME and ME Pro firmware version 1.17.0 or above

 

Designed Use Case

Use Case 1 - Protect the Privacy in Open Spaces

The DTEN ME/ME Pro users, positioned in open spaces, can utilize the auto framing and multi-focus camera modes while ensuring that individuals beyond their immediate surroundings are not captured. This feature serves to safeguard the privacy of everyone in the environment and enables online participants to concentrate solely on those present in the room. Moreover, the option to customize the camera's capture distance based on different usage scenarios provides added convenience for the users.

 

 

Use Case 2 - Increasing the Attention in Meetings

The DTEN ME/ME Pro users in-office phone booth pods for video conferencing can rest assured that people passing by the phone booths or reflections from the glass will not appear in meetings. This feature guarantees that the attention of all participants remains focused solely on those in the room. By leveraging these capabilities, the users can create a distraction-free environment, ensuring everyone’s full meeting participation. 

Setup Instruction

Prerequisites

• Please make sure the Auto/Multi-focus framing feature is activated. To activate this feature, click the “More” option in a Zoom Room meeting and select “Camera Control”.
• DTEN ME / ME Pro with DTEN 1.17.0 or above

Step-by-step instructions

1. Accessing the Dashboard:

To access the settings for Video Boundary, users have two options:

• Physical Button on the Device: Users can press the button at the back of the device to enter the dashboard.
• Zoom Rooms Settings: users can access the dashboard by navigating through ZR settings > General > System settings.

2. Configuring Video Boundary Range: 

After navigating to the dashboard page, tap the Settings button in the left column. Find the Camera Settings section from there and toggle the Video Boundary feature.  

 

 

The default radius of the video boundary is set at 2 meters / 6 ft. However, you can customize the boundary radius by tapping the Edit button. You may choose from the following options for the radius: 1m/3.3ft, 2m/6.6ft, or 3m/9.9ft. 

If you have additional questions or need to contact DTEN Support, please refer to this DTEN Knowledge Base article for more details:  HERE.