ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,427, issued on June 24, was assigned to Foshan Ltd. (Victoria, Seychelles).
"Equirectangular lens for virtual reality video" was invented by Trevor Childs (Windsor, Canada) and Matthew Loucks (Harrow, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An equirectangular lens is provided and is used in connection with a video camera to record in virtual reality without requiring post-recording software editing to put the video footage in virtual reality format. The lens is a compound camera lens with an aspherical (i.e. not spherical) and rotationally asymmetrical (such as a rounded square with irregular topography) lens element configured to capt...