US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on July 8 for "Systems and methods for selectively modifying a video frame of a video conference meeting" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,108, issued on July 8, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for selectively modifying a video frame of a video conference meeting" was invented by Sourabh Khire (San Jose, Calif.), Nithin A. Prakash (San Jose, Calif.), Suraj Rajpal (Karnataka, India) and Brian Russ (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative framing component of a video conference system identifies, from a plurality of pixels of a video frame, a subset of the pixels of the video frame that depict a participant of a video conference meeting in the video frame. The framing component determines whether ...