US Patent Issued to GoPro on March 25 for "Methods and apparatus for electronic image stabilization based on a lens polynomial" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,115, issued on March 25, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for electronic image stabilization based on a lens polynomial" was invented by Daryl Stimm (Encinitas, Calif.), Kyler William Schwartz (Oceanside, Calif.), Andrew Russell (San Francisco) and Robert McIntosh (Marina Del Rey, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for stabilizing image data based on a lens polynomial. Non-rectilinear footage can be captured and rectified in-camera; the rectified images may be stabilized to provide rectified stable video. In one exemplary embodiment, the footage is rectified and stabiliz...