Patents by Inventor Nitasha Walia

Nitasha Walia has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240372964
    Abstract: Low lighting adjustments can be provided within a video communication session. A system generates a lighting adjustment request including a lighting adjustment depth, then segments a region of a video frame into texture sub-regions. The system smoots areas that are adjacent to the texture sub-regions. The system detects an amount of lighting using an artificial intelligence model and modifies the video frame to adjust the amount of lighting. The amount of adjustment of lighting corresponds to the lighting adjustment depth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Abhishek Balaji, Bo Ling, Min Miao, Nitasha Walia, Xingguo Zhu
  • Publication number: 20240364840
    Abstract: One example system for displaying immersive scenes includes a processor and at least one memory device. The memory device includes instructions that are executable by the processor to cause the processor to receive a collection of metadata associated with an immersive scene, identify each of a plurality of properties of the immersive scene based on the collection of metadata, receive a dynamic immersive background, receive a plurality of video streams associated with a video conference, and display each of the plurality of video streams in the immersive scene based at least in part of the plurality of properties of the immersive scene and on the dynamic immersive background.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Lin Han, Nitasha Walia
  • Publication number: 20240357059
    Abstract: One example method for sharing content across videoconferencing sub-meetings includes establishing a videoconferencing session including a main meeting and a first sub-meeting, transmitting, from a first client, a content to be displayed over a data stream in the main meeting, transmitting, from a second client, a request to subscribe to the data stream over which the content is transmitted, and responsive to the request to subscribe to the data stream, receiving the content to be displayed in the first sub-meeting simultaneously with the content displayed in the main meeting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Lin Han, Nitasha Walia
  • Patent number: 12081904
    Abstract: Methods and systems provide for low lighting adjustments within a video communication session. First, the system receives video content within a video communication session of a video communication platform, the video content having multiple video frames. The system then receives or generates a lighting adjustment request including a lighting adjustment depth, then detects an amount of lighting in the video content. The system then modifies the video content to adjust the amount of lighting, wherein the amount of adjustment of lighting corresponds to the adjustment depth, and wherein adjusting the amount of lighting is performed in real time or substantially real time upon receiving the lighting adjustment request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Abhishek Balaji, Bo Ling, Min Miao, Nitasha Walia, Xingguo Zhu
  • Patent number: 12081899
    Abstract: One example system for displaying immersive scenes includes a processor and at least one memory device. The memory device includes instructions that are executable by the processor to cause the processor to receive a plurality of video streams associated with a video conference, each of the plurality of video streams having a removable background, receive a dynamic immersive background, receive an instruction, the instruction comprising a plurality of locations within the dynamic immersive background, and display an immersive scene including at least a subset of the plurality of video streams, wherein each video stream is displayed at one of the plurality of locations within the dynamic immersive background.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Lin Han, Nitasha Walia
  • Patent number: 12074929
    Abstract: One example system for providing virtual meeting room content monitoring for a host of a videoconference includes a processor and at least one memory device. The memory device includes instructions that can cause the processor to establish a videoconferencing session having a first virtual meeting room. The processor receives a control input from a host subscribed to the first virtual meeting room at a host client device. The control input indicates that the host is to monitor the meeting room content from one or more additional virtual meeting rooms. The instructions further cause the processor to, responsive to the control input from the host, cause the meeting room content of at least one of the additional virtual meeting rooms to be displayed on the host client device while the host is subscribed to the first virtual meeting room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Lin Han, Nitasha Walia, Tain Barzso
  • Patent number: 12035074
    Abstract: One example method includes receiving, by a video conference provider, an indication of a meeting type of a video conference; obtaining, by the video conference provider, multimedia content associated with the meeting type; receiving a request from a client device to join a main meeting of the video conference; connecting the client device to a waiting room associated with the video conference; and providing the multimedia content to the client device in the waiting room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Lin Han, Nitasha Walia
  • Patent number: 12035073
    Abstract: One example system for multiple host management of videoconferencing sub-meetings includes a processor and at least one memory device. The processor establishes a main videoconferencing meeting and establishes a host of the main videoconferencing meeting. The host participates using a first host client device. The processor can receive a selection of a participant to be a co-host. The co-host participates in the main videoconferencing meeting from a second host client device. The processor receives a first sub-meeting control input from the second host client device, wherein the first sub-meeting control input identifies an action to perform with respect to a sub-meeting. The system generates a second sub-meeting control input based on the first sub-meeting control input, executes the second sub-meeting control input, and discards the first sub-meeting control input so that the sub-meeting command is associated with the main host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Lin Han, Nitasha Walia
  • Publication number: 20240205035
    Abstract: One example method for managing participants in video conferences includes generating, by a video conferencing server, a request for a response status for each of a plurality of invitations to a video conference, each of the plurality of invitations associated with a video conference attendee, transmitting the request to a video conferencing application executed by a client device, receiving, by the video conferencing server, the response status for each of the plurality of invitations to the video conference, initiating, by the video conference server, the video conference, generating, by the video conference server, a list of each video conference attendee and the response status for each of the plurality of invitations to the video conference, and transmitting, by the video conferencing server, the list of each video conference attendee and the response status to the video conferencing application on the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2021
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: John Andrew Alexander Beckmann, Ailian Gan, Nitasha Walia, Xiaoqin Xue, Kathy Zhou
  • Publication number: 20240195941
    Abstract: A lighting setting for detecting a low light environment associated with a user in a video communication session is received from a client device associated with the user. Imagery of the user within at least one frame of video content of the video communication session is detected. An illumination of the at least one frame is modified based on the lighting setting, to obtain a modified frame, by diffusing light to achieve at least a semi-evenly lit frame. The modified frame can then be transmitted to other users of the video communication session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2024
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Abhishek Balaji, Bo Ling, Juliana Park, Nitasha Walia, Jianpeng Wang, Ruizhen Wang
  • Patent number: 11956561
    Abstract: One example system for displaying immersive scenes includes a processor and at least one memory device. The memory device includes instructions that are executable by the processor to cause the processor to receive a collection of metadata associated with an immersive scene, identify each of a plurality of properties of the immersive scene based on the collection of metadata, receive a dynamic immersive background, receive a plurality of video streams associated with a video conference, and display each of the plurality of video streams in the immersive scene based at least in part of the plurality of properties of the immersive scene and on the dynamic immersive background.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Lin Han, Nitasha Walia
  • Patent number: 11943564
    Abstract: Methods and systems provide for video appearance adjustments within a video communication session. First, the system receives video content. The system then receives an appearance adjustment request comprising an adjustment depth, and detects imagery of a user within the video content. The system then detects a face region within the video content. The system segments the face region into a number of skin areas. For each of the plurality of skin areas, the system classifies the skin area as a smooth texture region or rough texture region. If the skin area is classified as a smooth texture region, the system modifies the imagery of the user in real time or substantially real time by applying a smoothing process to the skin area, where the amount of smoothing applied corresponds to the adjustment depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Abhishek Balaji, Bo Ling, Juliana Park, Nitasha Walia, Jianpeng Wang, Ruizhen Wang
  • Patent number: 11882382
    Abstract: One example method for displaying ephemeral content in video conferences includes receiving a video conference stream at a client device, displaying the video conference stream on a display in communication with the client device, displaying a content layer over the video conference stream on the display, receiving a content item from a user input device in communication with the client device, displaying the content item in the content layer at a first time, and when a predetermined period of time has elapsed from the first time, automatically removing the content item from the content layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Nitasha Walia, Zheng Yuan
  • Patent number: 11882386
    Abstract: One example system for sharing content across videoconferencing sub-meetings includes a system comprising a processor; and at least one memory device including instructions that are executable by the processor to cause the processor to establish a videoconferencing session including a main meeting and a first sub-meeting, receive a content transmitted over a data stream to be displayed in the main meeting; cause the content to be displayed in the main meeting, receive a request to subscribe to the data stream over which the content is transmitted, and responsive to receiving the request to subscribe to the data stream, cause the content to be displayed in the first sub-meeting simultaneously with the content displayed in the main meeting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Lin Han, Nitasha Walia
  • Publication number: 20240015193
    Abstract: One disclosed example method includes a video conference provider establishing a main meeting of a video conference and multiple associated sub-meetings at the request of a host client device associated with a host of the meeting. The method further includes the video conference provider determining that a self-selection mode for the sub-meetings is enabled and transmitting notifications to participant client devices associated with the participants of the meeting. Each notification identifies a list of sub-meetings from which a participant can select a sub-meeting to join. The method further includes the video conference provider receiving and forwarding a request from a participant client device to connect to a selected sub-meeting, and receiving an automatic approval from the host client device. The video conference provider further connects the participant client device to the selected sub-meeting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Lin Han, Nitasha Walia
  • Patent number: 11863906
    Abstract: One example method for sharing content across videoconferencing sub-meetings includes establishing a videoconferencing session including a main meeting and a first sub-meeting, transmitting, from a first client, a content to be displayed over a data stream in the main meeting, transmitting, from a second client, a request to subscribe to the data stream over which the content is transmitted, and responsive to the request to subscribe to the data stream, receiving the content to be displayed in the first sub-meeting simultaneously with the content displayed in the main meeting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Lin Han, Nitasha Walia
  • Publication number: 20230421721
    Abstract: Methods and systems provide for low lighting adjustments within a video communication session. First, the system receives video content within a video communication session of a video communication platform, the video content having multiple video frames. The system then receives or generates a lighting adjustment request including a lighting adjustment depth, then detects an amount of lighting in the video content. The system then modifies the video content to adjust the amount of lighting, wherein the amount of adjustment of lighting corresponds to the adjustment depth, and wherein adjusting the amount of lighting is performed in real time or substantially real time upon receiving the lighting adjustment request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Abhishek Balaji, Bo Ling, Min Miao, Nitasha Walia, Xingguo Zhu
  • Patent number: 11818182
    Abstract: One disclosed example method includes a video conference provider establishing a main meeting of a video conference and multiple associated sub-meetings at the request of a host client device associated with a host of the meeting. The method further includes the video conference provider determining that a self-selection mode for the sub-meetings is enabled and transmitting notifications to participant client devices associated with the participants of the meeting. Each notification identifies a list of sub-meetings from which a participant can select a sub-meeting to join. The method further includes the video conference provider receiving and forwarding a request from a participant client device to connect to a selected sub-meeting, and receiving an automatic approval from the host client device. The video conference provider further connects the participant client device to the selected sub-meeting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Lin Han, Nitasha Walia
  • Publication number: 20230336688
    Abstract: One example system for providing notifications to videoconferencing sub-meetings includes a processor and at least one memory device. The processor establishes a videoconferencing session associated with a host. The videoconferencing session can include a main meeting, a sub-meeting, and a waiting queue. The processor can move the host from the main meeting to the sub-meeting, and subsequently move a new participant into the waiting queue. The processor can generate a notification that the participant has entered the waiting queue and determine that the host has moved to the sub-meeting. The processor can route, to the host in the sub-meeting using a stored connection of the host to the main meeting, a notification of the participant entering the waiting queue, and subsequently allow the host to admit the new participant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Lin Han, Nitasha Walia, Yamin Wei
  • Publication number: 20230276018
    Abstract: One example system for displaying immersive scenes includes a processor and at least one memory device. The memory device includes instructions that are executable by the processor to cause the processor to receive a collection of metadata associated with an immersive scene, identify each of a plurality of properties of the immersive scene based on the collection of metadata, receive a dynamic immersive background, receive a plurality of video streams associated with a video conference, and display each of the plurality of video streams in the immersive scene based at least in part of the plurality of properties of the immersive scene and on the dynamic immersive background.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Lin Han, Nitasha Walia