ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,448, issued on July 15, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Ambient light detection and hyperlapse video generation" was invented by Jinglun Gao (San Mateo, Calif.), Jun Hu (San Jose, Calif.) and Shan Tong (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hyperlapse imaging is described. A device may include a camera, a sensor and a data store. The camera is configured to capture images. The sensor detects ambient light properties. Captured images and the ambient light properties are processed in bulk to generate a hyperlapse video."

The patent was filed on March 20, 2024, under Application No. 18/...