US Patent Issued to Lenovo (Singapore) on Feb. 17 for "Computer vision to determine when video conference participant is off task" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,379, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Computer vision to determine when video conference participant is off task" was invented by Matthew Fardig (Morrisville, N.C.) and Timothy Robbins (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a device includes a processor assembly and storage accessible to the processor assembly. The storage includes instructions executable by the processor assembly to use one or more content recognition/computer vision algorithms to determine whether first and second images from respective client devices of first and second video conference partici...