ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,000, issued on May 13, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for horizon leveling videos" was invented by Daryl Stimm (Encinitas, Calif.), Kyler William Schwartz (Valley Center, Calif.) and Jonathan Leland Thorn (San Leandro, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video may be captured by an image capture device in motion. A horizon-leveled view of the video may be generated by providing a punchout of the video. The punchout of the video may compensate for rotation of the image capture device during capture of the video. The placement of the punchout of the video may be changed based on different rotat...