Microsoft patents AI backgrounds that place you in virtual meeting rooms

Microsoft describes a system that uses generative image models to create custom backgrounds for video calls. It uses techniques like inpainting to blend a user's video feed into these AI-generated scenes, making it look like they are physically present in the virtual environment.

In the filing’s own words

This document relates to providing adaptive teleconferencing experiences using generative image models. For example, the disclosed implementations can employ inpainting and/or image-to-image restyling modes of a generative image model to generate images for a teleconference. The images can be generated based on prompts relating to the teleconference. Users can be superimposed on the generated images, thus giving the appearance that the users are present in an environment generated by the generative image model.

Facts

Company

Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)

Official title

ADAPTIVE TELECONFERENCING EXPERIENCES USING GENERATIVE IMAGE MODELS

Publication number

US20260278869A1

Application number

19669230

Filed

May 6, 2026

Published

Sep 17, 2026

Inventors

7

Claims

21

Classified under

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