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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2004
Filed:
May. 18, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Frederick J. Cooper, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/14 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/14 ;
Abstract
A video conference station is disclosed comprising an image analyzer and a camera controller. The image analyzer receives video frames from a communicatively coupled first camera, detects the head of one or more conference participants within the received video frames and detects an active participant from the one or more conference participants. The camera controller, coupled to the image analysis circuit, controls a second camera based, at least in part, on detecting the active participant.