US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on March 25 for "Distance-based framing for an online conference session" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,895, issued on March 25, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Distance-based framing for an online conference session" was invented by Frode Tjontveit (Fjellhamar, Norway), Erik Hellerud (Oslo, Norway), Oystein Damhaug (Jessheim, Norway) and Kristian Tangeland (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Distance-based framing includes obtaining at least a video stream during an online conference session. The video stream, an audio stream received with the video stream, or both the video stream and the audio stream are analyzed and a framing that either focuses on a speaker in the video stream or provides an ov...