US Patent Issued to GoPro on Jan. 20 for "Systems and methods for framing videos based on image capture device motion" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,960, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for framing videos based on image capture device motion" was invented by Emmanuel Simon (Paris), Guillaume Oules (Bordeaux, France) and Ralph McEntagart (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video may be framed using information on direction-locking of the video. The video may be rotated based on changes in the orientation of the image capture device during video capture to simulate a video captured with the image capture device pointed in the same direction (e.g., north direction). Panning may be used to frame the video in the direction of...