US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 9 for "Active speaker detection using distributed devices" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,207, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Active speaker detection using distributed devices" was invented by Ross G. Cutler (Clyde Hill, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document relates to active speaker detection using distributed devices. For example, the disclosed implementations can employ personal devices of one or more users to detect when those users are speaking during a call with other users. Then, a camera on the personal device can be employed to obtain a front-facing view of the user, which can be provided to other call participants. In some cases, a microphone ...