US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on March 18 for "Method to control multiple cameras in a conference room based on audio tracking and head detection data" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,173, issued on March 18, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method to control multiple cameras in a conference room based on audio tracking and head detection data" was invented by Gisle Langen Enstad (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises, at a video conference system having cameras and microphone arrays each co-located with a corresponding one of the cameras: detecting a face of a participant, and estimating orientations of the face relative to the cameras, based on video captured by the cameras; receiving, from each of the microphone arrays, at least two microphone signals that rep...