US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 9 for "Smooth and jump-free rapid target acquisition" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,970, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Smooth and jump-free rapid target acquisition" was invented by Raymond Kirk Price (Redmond, Wash.), Michael Bleyer (Seattle) and Christopher Douglas Edmonds (Carnation, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for correcting an overlay misalignment between an external camera image and a system camera image are disclosed. A first system camera image and a first external camera image are acquired. A first visual alignment is performed between those two images to produce an overlaid image. Some of the content in the overlaid image is surro...