US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on Feb. 17 for "Body language assistant in video conferencing" (Washington, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,654, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Body language assistant in video conferencing" was invented by Zhiyun Li (Kenmore, Wash.), Dhananjay Lal (Englewood, Colo.) and Reda Harb (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assistant receives an impression of a user, the impression including at least an image of the user. The assistant may then receive impression guidelines based on a trained computer model. Using the impression guidelines, the assistant analyzes the impression of the user to determine if the impression of the user is appropriate. The assistant then informs the user at a us...