Patents by Inventor Robert Aaron Klegon

Robert Aaron Klegon 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).

  • Video Conference Background Cleanup
    Publication number: 20240040073
    Abstract: A computer stores a reference image representing a physical background within a field of view of a camera of a client device. The computer receives, via the camera and during a video conference to which the client device is connected, camera-generated visual data for output to at least one remote device connected to the video conference. The computer identifies, based on facial recognition applied to the camera-generated visual data, foreground imagery representing at least one person and background imagery representing content of the camera-generated visual data other than the foreground imagery. The computer identifies a difference between the background imagery and the reference image. The computer generates a composite image by replacing, within the background imagery of the camera-generated visual data, an item represented within the background imagery and within the identified difference with a co-located part of the reference image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Shihwei Chang, Robert Aaron Klegon, Cynthia Eshiuan Lee, Nicholas Mueller, Shane Paul Springer
  • Video conference background cleanup using reference image
    Patent number: 11671561
    Abstract: A computer stores a reference image representing a physical background within a field of view of a camera of a client device. The computer receives, via the camera and during a video conference to which the client device is connected, camera-generated visual data for output to at least one remote device connected to the video conference. The computer identifies, based on facial recognition applied to the camera-generated visual data, foreground imagery representing at least one person and background imagery representing content of the camera-generated visual data other than the foreground imagery. The computer identifies a difference between the background imagery and the reference image. The computer generates a composite image by replacing, within the background imagery of the camera-generated visual data, an item represented within the background imagery and within the identified difference with a co-located part of the reference image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Shihwei Chang, Robert Aaron Klegon, Cynthia Eshiuan Lee, Nicholas Mueller, Shane Paul Springer