US Patent Issued to Google on Nov. 25 for "Displaying video conference participants in alternative display orientation modes" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,674, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Displaying video conference participants in alternative display orientation modes" was invented by Ryan Fedyk (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Stephane Herve Loic Hulaud (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining whether to display video conference participants in first display mode are provided. A plurality of video streams from a plurality of client devices of a plurality of participants of a video conference are received. One or more visual features of one or more objects in each of the plurality of video streams is identified. Base...