US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Jan. 13 for "Machine learning techniques for enhancing video conferencing applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,831, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Machine learning techniques for enhancing video conferencing applications" was invented by Akarsh Umesh Zingade (San Jose, Calif.), Jianyuan Min (Santa Clara, Calif.), Shuye Han (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Rochelle Pereira (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, processes, and techniques to automatically detect and enlarge a speaking one of plurality of participants on one side of a video conference. In at least one embodiment, the speaking participant is identified using one or more heuristics and/or one or more neural networks."

The paten...