US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 30 for "Correcting distortion from camera pitch angle" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,730, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Correcting distortion from camera pitch angle" was invented by Karlton David Powell (Lake Stevens, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One disclosed example provides a videoconferencing system comprising a processor and a storage device storing instructions executable by the processor to obtain an image of a scene acquired via a camera, the image of the scene comprising image distortion arising from a camera pitch angle at which the image of the scene was acquired. The instructions are further executable to apply a projection mapping to t...