ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,809, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Detecting the presence of a virtual meeting participant" was invented by Dongeek Shin (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting the presence of a virtual meeting participant includes obtaining a first frame of a video stream generated by a camera of a client device of a participant of a virtual meeting. The method includes generating a depth map of the first frame. The method includes, for each of one or more second frames of the video stream, generating a point cloud of an image of the participant located in a respective second...