US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on May 19 for "Virtual background color adjustment based on physical environment color" (Georgia, Texas, Louisiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,420, issued on May 19, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Virtual background color adjustment based on physical environment color" was invented by Toluwalope Adedoyin Adebayo (Acworth, Ga.), Thanh Le Nguyen (Belle Chasse, La.) and Kyle Christopher Walker (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sensor data that include color data of multiple locations within a physical environment is obtained by a device. A color, based on the color data, is determined of a background area behind a participant device that is used to connect to a videoconference. A new virtual background color to use with a video stream ...