US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 22 for "Method for rejecting head detections through windows in meeting rooms" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,812, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method for rejecting head detections through windows in meeting rooms" was invented by Bjorn Are Therkelsen (Oslo, Norway), Asbjorn Therkelsen (Ebru, Norway) and Rune Oistein Aas (Lysaker, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is performed by an endpoint device that includes a microphone array to detect audio and a camera to capture video. The method comprises: detecting faces in the video to produce detected faces; detecting talkers based on the audio to produce detected talkers; determining valid face positions based on the detected faces ...