ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,045, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Fyusion Inc. (San Francisco).
"Method and apparatus for 3-D auto tagging" was invented by Chris Beall (San Francisco), Abhishek Kar (Berkeley, Calif.), Stefan Johannes Josef Holzer (San Mateo, Calif.), Radu Bogdan Rusu (San Francisco) and Pavel Hanchar (Minsk, Belarus).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-view interactive digital media representation (MVIDMR) of an object can be generated from live images of an object captured from a camera. Selectable tags can be placed at locations on the object in the MVIDMR. When the selectable tags are selected, media content can be output which shows det...