ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,179, issued on June 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Automatic profile picture updates" was invented by Pradeep Kumar Reddy K (Hyderabad, India), Bhavesh Sharma (Hyderabad, India) and Rahul Gupta (Hyderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user's profile picture is updated from a live video stream. A profile updater analyzes the still images that make up the live video stream and identifies one or more target characteristics of a subject in the still images. Using the target characteristics, one or more still images are selected for use as the updated profile picture. The user provides fe...