US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Oct. 14 for "Extraction of textual content from video of a communication session" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,221, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Extraction of textual content from video of a communication session" was invented by Renjie Tao (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ling Tsou (Lawndale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems provide for providing extraction of textual content from video of a communication session. In one embodiment, the system receives video content of a communication session which includes a number of participants. The system then extracts frames from the video content, and classifies the frames of the video content. The system identifies one or more distin...