US Patent Issued to Vizio on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for enhancing television display for video conferencing and video watch party applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,548, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Vizio Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for enhancing television display for video conferencing and video watch party applications" was invented by Zeev Neumeier (Berkeley, Calif.), W. Leo Hoarty (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and John Schindler (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a system and method for controlling a television display in such a matter that some portion of that display is re-purposed as a light emitting device intended to provide improved video scene lighting when using a video camera associated with the television display for comm...