US Patent Issued to GN Audio on Sept. 1 for "Method and system for automatic speaker framing in video applications" (American, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,443, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to GN Audio A/S (Denmark).

"Method and system for automatic speaker framing in video applications" was invented by Morten Smidt Proschowsky (Vaerlose, Denmark), Sui Kun Guan (Union City, Calif.), Nihit Rajendra Save (Mountain View, Calif.) and Aurangzeb Khan (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For video applications, a method for dynamically switching from a current ROI to a target ROI is disclosed, wherein the target ROI only includes active speakers. Advantageously, if the target ROI crops a non-speaker, then the target ROI is expanded to include said non-speaker. Transitionin...