US Patent Issued to Snap on June 24 for "Augmented reality anamorphosis system" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,475, issued on June 24, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Augmented reality anamorphosis system" was invented by Piers Cowburn (London), Qi Pan (London) and Eitan Pilipski (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, devices, and media for anamorphosis systems to generate and cause display of anamorphic media are disclosed. In one embodiment, an anamorphosis system is configured to identify a set of features of a space, determine relative positions of the set of features, determine a perspective of the mobile device within the space based on the relative positions of the set of features, retrieve ana...