ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,212, issued on May 20, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Safe and privacy preserving video representation" was invented by Colvin Pitts (Snohomish, Wash.), Yukun Zu (Shoreline, Wash.) and Xuhui Jia (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system and method that can be used for safe and privacy preserving video representations of participants in a videoconference. In particular, the present disclosure provides a general pipeline for generating reconstructions of videoconference participants based on semantic statuses and/or activity statuses of the participants. The systems and methods of the present disc...