ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,432, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).
"Participant data synchronization in videoconferencing" was invented by Meng-Ju Lu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Shih-Wei Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and media are provided for processing participant data in a videoconference. The method includes recording an audio signal with a microphone associated with a participant of the conference and determining if the audio signal includes speech produced by the participant using a speech detection module. The method also includes determining if a time dela...