ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,626, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"AR item placement in a video" was invented by Avihay Assouline (Tel Aviv, Israel), Itamar Berger (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Gal Dudovitch (Tel Aviv, Israel), Peleg Harel (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Gal Sasson (Kibbutz Ayyelet Hashahar, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system for presenting AR items. The system performs operations including receiving a video that includes a depiction of one or more real-world objects in a real-world environment and obtaining depth information related to the real-world environment; and g...