US Patent Issued to Huddly AS on April 7 for "Video framing based on tracked characteristics of meeting participants" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,251, issued on April 7, was assigned to Huddly AS (Oslo, Norway).

"Video framing based on tracked characteristics of meeting participants" was invented by Vegard Hammer (Tarnasen, Norway) and Jon Tore Hafstad (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi- and single-camera video conferencing systems are disclosed including at least one camera, each configured to generate an overview video output stream representative of a meeting environment, and at least one video processing unit. The video processing unit(s) are configured to automatically analyze the overview video output stream(s) to identify one or more meeting participants...