US Patent Issued to Snap on Sept. 9 for "System to correlate video data and contextual data" (Utah, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,890, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"System to correlate video data and contextual data" was invented by Kirk Ouimet (Orem, Utah), Rong Yan (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Yantao Zheng (Venice, Calif.), Timothy Michael Sehn (Marina Del Rey, Calif.) and Evan Spiegel (Venice, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method of processing image data may include receiving environmental data and associated capture time data from a sensor of a mobile computing device, the capture time data reflecting capture time of the environmental data; processing the environmental data to generate met...