US Patent Issued to Niantic on May 20 for "Efficient GPU/CPU pipeline for providing augmented reality content" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,608, issued on May 20, was assigned to Niantic Inc. (San Francisco).

"Efficient GPU/CPU pipeline for providing augmented reality content" was invented by Erik Murphy-Chutorian (Palo Alto, Calif.), Nicholas Butko (Cupertino, Calif.), Rigel Gareth Benton (Mountain View, Calif.), Dat Chu (San Francisco), Scott Pollack (San Francisco) and Alvin Portillo (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations generally relate to providing augmented reality in a web browser. In one implementation, a method includes capturing images of a physical scene with a camera of a device. The method further includes determining motion of the ca...