ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,966, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Adeia Imaging LLC (San Jose, Calif.).
"Digital image capture device having a panorama mode" was invented by Igor Barcovschi (Galway, Ireland), George Susanu (Galway, Ireland) and Serghei Carateev (Galway, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hand-held digital camera has a touch-sensitive display screen ("touch screen") for image preview and user control of the camera, and a user-selectable panorama mode. Upon entering panorama mode the camera superimposes upon the touch screen a horizontal rectangular bar whose width and/or height are user-adjustable by interaction with the touch screen to ...