US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 16 for "Automating the creation of listings using augmented reality computer technology" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,488, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Automating the creation of listings using augmented reality computer technology" was invented by Byong Mok Oh (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are various embodiments for automating the creation of listings using augmented reality. An embodiment operates by identifying a template for a for sale object (FSO), selecting a first image of the one or more common images of the template, and determining a boundary of the first image. It is determined that a listing image of the FSO, through a camera of a computing device, is smaller t...