US Patent Issued to Google on March 18 for "Scale-down capture preview for a panorama capture user interface" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,150, issued on March 18, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Scale-down capture preview for a panorama capture user interface" was invented by Lawrence Chia-Yu Huang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Carsten Hinz (Munich), Chorong Hwang Johnston (Mountain View, Calif.), Mike Ma (San Jose, Calif.) and Isaac William Reynolds (Longmont, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes apparatuses and techniques enabling a scale down capture preview for a panorama capture user interface. This scale down preview enables users to more-easily and more-accurately capture images for a panorama."

The patent was filed on Apri...