US Patent Issued to GoPro on May 20 for "Systems and methods for identifying viewing directions for video content" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,343, issued on May 20, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for identifying viewing directions for video content" was invented by Mark Vaden (San Diego), Ingrid A. Cotoros (Hillsborough, Calif.), Scott Novell (Carlsbad, Calif.), Valerian Dottel (Allevard, France), Guillaume Tilloux (Chapareillan, France), Loic Bailliard (Annecy, France) and Loic Lanoir (La Trinite, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Video information and sensor information may be obtained. The video information may define spherical video content having a progress length. The spherical video content may define visual content viewable...