ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,140, issued on June 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Contribution-based close-up control" was invented by Jun Su (Beijing), Su Liu (Austin, Texas), Guang Han Sui (Beijing) and Peng Hui Jiang (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor set receives data detected from sensor devices associated with an online conference session. The processor set, based on analyzing the data, determines a contribution score for each of a plurality of participants attending the online conference, which is being conducted via the video stream. The contribution score indicates a participant's level of contr...