US Patent Issued to GoPro on April 29 for "Image capture device for generating panoramas while recording video" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,530, issued on April 29, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Image capture device for generating panoramas while recording video" was invented by Nicolas Rahmouni (Paris), Vincent Riaute (Carrieres sous Poissy, France), Marc Lebrun (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France) and Michel Auger (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capture device may capture visual content of a video during a capture duration. The image capture device may be panned during the capture duration. Panning of the image capture device may be detected and a panoramic image may be automatically generated using the visual content captured during panning o...