ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,933, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to INDUSTRY ACADEMY COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF SEJONG UNIVERSITY (Seoul, South Korea).

"Augmented reality content in-situ authoring method and apparatus" was invented by Jong Weon Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an augmented reality content in-situ authoring method and apparatus. In an augmented reality content in-situ authoring method, a reference object or an augmented target object to be augmented may be selected from a camera preview image of a real world, a two-dimensional (2D) plane region may be recognized based on the selected reference object or the au...