US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on July 28 for "Augmenting foreground of a conference participant" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,537, issued on July 28, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Augmenting foreground of a conference participant" was invented by Chi-chian Yu (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foreground portion and a background portion are obtained from an image of a conference participant. Using a background replacement image, a replacement background portion corresponding to the background portion is obtained. An indication of an image portion that is included in the image and is outside the foreground portion is obtained. An output image that includes the replacement background portion, the foreground por...