US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Sept. 1 for "Virtual background adjustment for quality retention during reduced-bandwidth video conferencing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,375, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Virtual background adjustment for quality retention during reduced-bandwidth video conferencing" was invented by Graeme Lambourne Geddes (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and Shawn Michael Rolin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During a video conference, a bandwidth reduction affecting a conference participant represented by a video stream that includes a virtual background and a foreground depicting the conference participant is detected. Based on the bandwidth reduction, a resolution of the virtual background is decreased while maintaining a r...