US Patent Issued to Mitel Networks on May 12 for "System and method of tactile based display (image) adaptation of videoconference proceedings" (Canadian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,612, issued on May 12, was assigned to Mitel Networks Corp. (Konata, Canada).

"System and method of tactile based display (image) adaptation of videoconference proceedings" was invented by Birendra Kumar Sahu (Bangalore, India) and Logendra Naidoo (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conferencing system and method detects one or more two-dimensional (2D) images in presented 2D data and/or objects shown during a videoconference and renders them on a participant's three-dimensional (3D) tactile screen. The system includes a conferencing server that is in communication with one or more participant devices. An image recognition engine...