ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,114, issued on July 8, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Virtual privacy curtain" was invented by Dario Cazzani (New York), William Reed (Tiburon, Calif.) and Mitchell Mosure (Madison, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques to process an image for a video conference. A method includes obtaining an image from a camera, identifying a first person and a second person in the image, labeling pixels in the image belonging to the first person and to the second person, determining a first distance between the first person and the camera and a second distance between the second person and t...