ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,862, issued on June 30, was assigned to Agora Lab Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Video tagging for video communications" was invented by Sheng Zhong (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Yue Feng (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for video communications include: transmitting, from a first apparatus, a first video stream of a first user to a second apparatus of a second user; receiving, from the second apparatus, a second video stream of the second user; determining a reaction of the second user to an area of interest in the first video stream using the second video stream; and updating a parameter for encoding the area of intere...