US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Dec. 9 for "Reframing video feeds around background layer" (Louisiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,001, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Reframing video feeds around background layer" was invented by Thanh Le Nguyen (Belle Chasse, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems provide for providing a virtual background within a communication session using dynamic chroma key reframing. In one embodiment, a method displays a user interface including at least one video feed corresponding to a participant of the communication session. The method receives a request to enable a selected or provided virtual background using chroma keying. The method then determines a background layer ...