US Patent Issued to Snap on Sept. 16 for "Generating immersive augmented reality experiences from existing images and videos" (New York, California, New Jersey, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,593, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Generating immersive augmented reality experiences from existing images and videos" was invented by Rajan Vaish (Beverly Hills, Calif.), Sven Kratz (Mercer Island, Wash.), Andres Monroy-Hernandez (Princeton, N.J.) and Brian Anthony Smith (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A two-dimensional element is identified from one or more two-dimensional images. A volumetric content item is generated based on the two-dimensional element identified from the one or more two-dimensional images. A display device presents the volumetric content item overlaid on a real...