ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,495, issued on May 20, was assigned to YAMAHA Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Processing method of conference system, and conference system" was invented by Koichiro Sato (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing method of a conference system includes a microphone, a camera, and a first object. The processing method obtains image data of an image taken by the camera, the image data including a plurality of objects, detects kinds and positions of a plurality of objects included in the image data obtained, identifies the first object and one or more second objects different from the first object based on the detected kin...