ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,158, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Content playback based on a path" was invented by Allessandra E. McGinnis (San Francisco), Kevin Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Connor A. Smith (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jack R. Dashwood (San Francisco) and Luis R. Deliz Centeno (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations present a playback session on an electronic device based on a viewer's position relative to a position of an object (e.g., a representation of a content creator) during the recording of content (e.g., a memory). For example, at a first device having a processor, a process may ac...