ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,772, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Real time visual mitigation of a live camera feed" was invented by Mohammad Haris Baig (San Jose, Calif.) and Praveen Gowda Ippadi Veerabhadre Gowda (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mitigating triggering display conditions includes obtaining an image frame, comprising image data captured by a camera, determining, from the image data, an image statistic for at least a portion of the image frame. The technique also includes determining that the image statistic satisfies a trigger criterion, where the trigger criterion is associated with at least on...