ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,248, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Niantic Spatial Inc. (San Francisco).
"Template-based AR facial augmentation" was invented by Joshua Aisheng Mao (Mountain View, Calif.), Nathan Waters (San Francisco) and Rigel Gareth Benton (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes an online system that applies template-based facial augmentations to images as part of an augmented reality experience. A facial augmentation template is a template for an augmented reality (AR) modification to apply to a user's face. These templates include a structure for how the augmentation should be applied to the f...