ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,358, issued on June 2, was assigned to Lenovo (United States) Inc. (Morrisville, N.C.).
"Extraneous video element detection and modification" was invented by Howard J. Locker (Cary, N.C.), John Weldon Nicholson (Cary, N.C.), Daryl C Cromer (Raleigh, N.C.), David Alexander Schwarz (Morrisville, N.C.) and Mounika Vanka (Durham, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method includes receiving images from a device camera during a video conference and processing the received images via a machine learning model trained on labeled image training data to detect extraneous image portions. Extraneous image pixels associated ...