US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V on Feb. 3 for "Video conference apparatus, video conference method and computer program using a spatial virtual reality environment" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,869, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V (Munich).

"Video conference apparatus, video conference method and computer program using a spatial virtual reality environment" was invented by Siegfried Foessel (Erlangen, Germany) and Angela Raguse-Foessel (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Video conference apparatus (100) is configured to reproduce videos (110a,110b) of a plurality of video conference participants on a plurality of video reproduction areas (120a,120b; 220a-220c; 420a-420d; 470a-470h) or video reproduction spaces that are arranged in a spatia...