ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,387, issued on March 24, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Protecting webcam video feeds from visual modifications" was invented by Candid Wuest (Bassersdorf, Switzerland), Serg Bell (Costa del Sol, Singapore) and Stanislav Protasov (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for safeguarding the authenticity and integrity of a real-time video feed generated by a webcam. A video frame includes a sequence of frame images and key frames within the sequence. A method includes generating the video feed by the webcam at a first computing device, identifying a key frame [kf] in the ...