ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,491, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Adaptive image processing for augmented reality device" was invented by Thomas Muttenthaler (Vienna) and Kai Zhou (Wiener Neudorf, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples describe adaptive image processing for an augmented reality (AR) device. An input image is captured by a camera of the AR device, and a region of interest of the input image is determined. The region of interest is associated with an object that is being tracked using an object tracking system. A crop-and-scale order of an image processing operation directed at the region of interest is...