ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,681, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Context-based image state selection" was invented by David Meisenholder (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for presenting images on a mobile device. Images are presented by monitoring one or more physical characteristics surrounding the mobile device using at least one sensor, determining a contextual state of the mobile device based on the monitored one or more physical characteristics, selecting an image from a plurality of related images associated with the determined contextual state, gen...