ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,184, issued on March 4, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Virtual lens simulation for video and photo cropping" was invented by David A. Newman (Del Mar, Calif.), Joshua Edward Bodinet (San Diego), Otto Kenneth Sievert (Oceanside, Calif.) and Timothy MacMillan (La Honda, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a video capture system, a virtual lens is simulated when applying a crop or zoom effect to an input video. An input video frame is received from the input video that has a first field of view and an input lens distortion. A selection of a sub-frame representing a portion of the input video frame is obtained that...