ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,820, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Mixed reality media content" was invented by Sharon Moll (Lachen, Switzerland), Piotr Gurgul (Hergiswil, Switzerland) and Dawei Zhang (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mixed-reality media content system may be configured to perform operations that include: causing display of image data at a client device, the image data comprising a depiction of an object that includes a graphical code at a position upon the object; detecting the graphical code at the position upon the depiction of the object based on the image data; accessing media content within a me...