ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,485, issued on May 20, was assigned to Photon Ventures Inc. (Garden Valley, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for assistive video capture" was invented by Peter Anthony Duffy (Garden Valley, Calif.) and Louis Norman III (Sacramento, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system and associated methods for assistive video capture. The system is implemented using one or more sensors that are associated with and track movements of a video capture device. The system selects a three-dimensional ("3D") path that defines 3D positional movements for guiding a video capture of a target object from different positions. The system trac...