US Patent Issued to GoPro on Aug. 12 for "Methods and apparatus for enabling playback of content during an ongoing capture" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,764, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for enabling playback of content during an ongoing capture" was invented by David Newman (Del Mar, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for enabling indexing and playback of media content before the end of a content capture. In one aspect, a method for enabling indexing of media data obtained as part of a content capture is disclosed. In one embodiment, the indexing enables playback of the media data during the capture and before cessation thereof. In one variant, the method includes generating an "SOS track" for one ...