US Patent Issued to Snap on Nov. 11 for "Projecting images in augmented reality environments based on visual markers" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,166, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Projecting images in augmented reality environments based on visual markers" was invented by Pawel Wawruch (Freienbach, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for displaying images on a digital display of a computing device in such a way that the images appear to be projected onto a physical space defined by visual markers in the physical environment. This involves using a digital image sensor of the computing device to detect one or more visual markers and determine a position and boundaries to display the image on the digital display ...