US Patent Issued to Lenovo (Singapore) on July 15 for "Video activation based upon detection of user action" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,418, issued on July 15, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Video activation based upon detection of user action" was invented by Russell Speight VanBlon (Raleigh, N.C.), Kevin W Beck (Raleigh, N.C.) and Thorsten Stremlau (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a method, including: identifying, using one or more sensors of a central communication system, a user action performed by the user at one of a plurality of image capturing devices, wherein each of the plurality of image capturing devices is associated with a video capture feed separate from a video capture feed of the ot...