US Patent Issued to GoPro on Jan. 20 for "Systems and methods for determining viewing paths through videos" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,961, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for determining viewing paths through videos" was invented by Daryl Stimm (Encinitas, Calif.), Kyler William Schwartz (Oceanside, Calif.) and William Edward MacDonald (Oceanside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multiple framings of a video may define different positionings of a viewing window at different moments within the video. The positionings of the viewing window defined by the multiple framings may be used as fixed positionings of the viewing window in a viewing path. The viewing path may define changes in the positioning of the ...