US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on May 27 for "Gaze-tracking-based image downscaling for multi-party video communication" (Illinois, Maryland, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,691, issued on May 27, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Gaze-tracking-based image downscaling for multi-party video communication" was invented by Austin Walters (Savoy, Ill.), Alvin Hua (Clarksburg, Md.), Anh Truong (Champaign, Ill.), Vincent Pham (Seattle), Ernest Kwak (Urbana, Ill.), Galen Rafferty (Mahomet, Ill.) and Jeremy Goodsitt (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, gaze-tracking-based image downscaling for multi-party video communication may be provided. In some embodiments, a set of gaze locations may be received from a set of receiving devices during concurrent video c...