ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,373, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Spatial audio system for videoconferencing" was invented by Yifeng Fan (Foster City, Calif.), Zhaofeng Jia (Saratoga, Calif.) and Gang Shi (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for spatial audio generation for videoconferencing are provided. For example, a computing device detects the head pose of a user of a video conference. The device further determines a first relative direction of a participant user interface (UI) element for an active speaker of the video conference with respect to the user based on a first posit...