ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,710, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for 360-degree video stitching" was invented by Gi-Mun Um (Daejeon, South Korea), Seong-Yong Lim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hee-Kyung Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for 360-degree video stitching. The apparatus for 360-degree video stitching includes memory for storing at least one program, and a processor for executing the program, wherein the program is configured to stitch features of multiple input images based on at lea...