ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,852, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Audio reactive augmented reality" was invented by David Robert Kasper (Pacifica, Calif.), Catherine Yoo (San Francisco) and Matthew Alexander Nichols (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and storage media for augmenting a video are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive a selection of an effect; receive user-generated content comprising video data and audio data; detect a characteristic of the audio data comprising at least a volume and/or a pitch of the audio data during a period of time; determine a series of num...