ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,945, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Application of dolly zoom effect to videos" was invented by Teo Marcin (Ile-de-France, France), Thomas Crozier (Vanves, France), Seraphin Cyrille Philippe Bonnaffe (San Mateo, Calif.) and Tuan Phuc Phan (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Visual content captured by an image capture device may be stabilized. A target depicted within visual content of a video may be identified manually by a user or automatically by a computing device. Dolly zoom visual content may be generated by using a viewing window to crop the visual content. The size and/or the ...