ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,016, issued on Oct. 14.
"Focus of shared content" was invented by Hui Zhang (Nanjing Jiangsu, China), Liang Zhou (Nanjing Jiangsu, China) and Yuan Ren (Nanjing Jiangsu, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for allowing for techniques of automatically targeting focus and enlarging images upon detection that a receiver of shared video content is using a smaller screen. The presenter may indicate a focus point on the displayed video being shared to indicate where the targeted focusing and enlarging should be centered. A focus area and an enlargement factor may be calculated based on a difference in screen size betwee...