US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on June 17 for "Matching active speaker pose between two cameras" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,608, issued on June 17, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Matching active speaker pose between two cameras" was invented by Jian David Wang (Burnaby, Canada), Xiangdong Wang (Carlisle, Mass.) and Varun Ajay Kulkarni (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are multiple cameras in a conference room, each pointed in a different direction. A primary camera includes a microphone array to perform sound source localization (SSL). The SSL is used in combination with a video image to identify the speaker from among multiple individuals that appear in the video image. Pose information of t...