US Patent Issued to Snap on June 3 for "Using portrait images in augmented reality components" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,061, issued on June 3, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Using portrait images in augmented reality components" was invented by Roman Golobokov (London), Aleksandr Mashrabov (Los Angeles), Dmitry Matov (London) and Jeremy Baker Voss (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technical problem of creating an augmented reality (AR) experience that, on one hand, is accessible from a camera view user interface provided with a messaging client and that, also, can perform a modification based on a previously captured image of a user, is addressed by providing an AR component. When a user, while accessing the messaging ...