ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,658, issued on July 15, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Video processing with preview of AR effects" was invented by Cai Zhu (Zhangjiajie, China), Chuangwen Liu (Shenzhen, China), Haoyun Wu (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.) and Weihao Yuan (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Image augmentation effects are provided on a device that includes a display and a camera. A simplified augmented reality effect is applied to a stream of images captured by the camera, to generate a preview stream of images. The preview stream of images is displayed on the display. A second stream of images corresponding to the first st...