US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 7 for "Content based focus adjustment" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,156, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Content based focus adjustment" was invented by Jun Feng Duan (Beijing), Jun Su (Beijing), Guang Han Sui (Beijing), Peng Hui Jiang (Beijing), Su Liu (Austin, Texas) and Yu Zhu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method to automatically adjust a view of a video stream to focus on a relevant item. The method includes monitoring activity in video feed of a video conference. The method further includes identifying, in the video feed, an item that a user is interacting with during the video conference. The method also in...