ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,100, issued on April 22, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Image classification in a sequence of frames" was invented by Orlando Miguel Pires Dos Reis Moreira (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Louis Rouillard-Odera (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for classifying image content in a sequence (SEQ) of image frames. Frame image data (FI), representing an appearance of image content of the image frames (Fm,Fn), is converted into frame event data (FEn). The conversion comprises determining, for each event, a set of event parameters. The event parameters include positional coordinates (x,y) representing ...