US Patent Issued to GoPro on April 15 for "Systems and methods for generating distance-lapse videos" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,044, issued on April 15, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for generating distance-lapse videos" was invented by David Newman (Del Mar, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capture device may be moved while capturing a distance-lapse video. Distance traveled by the image capture device may be used to determine when video frames of the distance-lapse video are generated. Video frames of the distance-lapse video may be generated when the image capture device travels over a certain amount of distance. Distance interval, rather than time interval, may be used to generate the distance-lapse vide...