ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,867, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Neatframe Ltd. (London).
"Video stream manipulation" was invented by Simen Andresen (Fornebu, Norway), Anh Duc Dao (Fornebu, Norway), Stian Selnes (Fornebu, Norway), Hakon Skramstad (Fornebu, Norway), Ivar Johnsrud (Fornebu, Norway) and Simen Teigre (Fornebu, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manipulating an initial video stream captured by a camera in a video conferencing endpoint into multiple views corresponding to regions of interest. The method comprises detecting objects of one or more predefined types in a frame of the initial video stream; selecting a plurality of crop re...