US Patent Issued to Zoom Video Communications on Feb. 18 for "Apparatus for capturing a group photograph during a video conferencing session" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,814, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Zoom Video Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Apparatus for capturing a group photograph during a video conferencing session" was invented by Dingping Jiang (Hefei, China), Juan Jiang Wald (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Liang Wang (Hefei, China) and Huipin Zhang (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a group photograph system coordinates and creates a group photograph of participants of a video conferencing session. Using inputs from the participants, the group photograph system captures images of individual participants and selectively assembles a group photograp...