ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,705, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Controlling an augmented call based on user gaze" was invented by Jing Ma (Mill Creek, Wash.), Paul Armistead Hoover (Bothell, Wash.) and Joshuah Vincent (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to controlling a sending side of an augmented call based on a receiving user's gaze. Some implementations provide a hologram moderation system in which a receiving user's gaze can control how the system generates a representation of a sending user on a sending side. For example, some implementations can ...