ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,028, issued on May 13, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Conversion between aspect ratios in camera" was invented by Nicholas D. Woodman (Big Sky, Mont.), Sumit Chawla (San Mateo, Calif.), Loic Segapelli (Oakland, Calif.) and Scott Patrick Campbell (Belmont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera system captures an image in a source aspect ratio and applies a transformation to the input image to scale and warp the input image to generate an output image having a target aspect ratio different than the source aspect ratio. The output image has the same field of view as the input image, maintains image resolution,...