ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,523, issued on May 20, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Video stream segmentation for quality retention during reduced-bandwidth video conferencing" was invented by Graeme Lambourne Geddes (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and Shawn Michael Rolin (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During a video conference, a bandwidth reduction affecting a conference participant represented by a video stream without a virtual background is detected. Based on the bandwidth reduction, the video stream is segmented into a background and a foreground, in which the foreground depicts the conference participant. A resolution...