ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,857, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Adeia Imaging LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Synthesizing images from the perspective of the dominant eye" was invented by Aldis Sipolins (Somerville, Mass.), Ning Xu (Irvine, Calif.), Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Jean-Yves Couleaud (Mission Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method are provided for capturing images based on dominant eye characteristics of a user. The system detects, by a wearable device, a hand gesture of the user indicating an image boundary for capturing an image from one or more cameras of the wearable device. The system generates, by the wearable device, t...