ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,996, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for framing videos" was invented by Mejed El Jabri (Paris).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spherical video depicting a scene including one or more human subjects is obtained. Gaze direction(s) of the human subjects are used to determine how the spherical video will be framed for presentation. Based on the gaze direction(s) passing through a center of the spherical video, the spherical video is framed to include the spatial extent that depicts the human subject(s). Based on the gaze direction(s) not passing through the center of the spherical vi...