ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,483, issued on May 12, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Reducing false positive identifications during video conferencing tracking and detection" was invented by Raghavendra Balavalikar Krishnamurthy (Austin, Texas), Rajen Bhatt (Philadelphia), David Bryan (Austin, Texas) and Yong Yan (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including detecting, in a digital image, a set of sub-images matching a selected object type. The method also includes generating a first confidence score that a first sub-image in set of sub-images matches a selected object type. The method also includes generatin...