ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,944, issued on July 7, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Videoconference image enhancement based on scene models" was invented by Rastislav Lukac (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system improves image quality, such as during a videoconference, by adjusting one or more captured images based on a model of a scene, a conference participant's face or a combination thereof. The images are adjusted in response to identification of relatively poor ambient conditions for image capture. The imaging system, such as a videoconference system, is thus able to display relatively high-qual...