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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:
Oct. 23, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2006
Applicants:
Jean-pierre Ciudad, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael Stochosky, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kurt Knight, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Scott Forstall, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ralph Brunner, Cupertino, CA (US);
Chendi Zhang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jean-Pierre Ciudad, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael Stochosky, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kurt Knight, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Scott Forstall, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ralph Brunner, Cupertino, CA (US);
Chendi Zhang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/74 (2006.01); H04N 7/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image of a background is stored and thereafter removed from a video stream. Substitute background video data is merged into the video stream and provided to videoconference participants.