ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,688, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Group party view and post viewing digital content creation" was invented by Kimberlee Smith (San Mateo, Calif.) and Jennifer Sheldon (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for group-watching video streams. In one aspect the disclosed systems and methods may generate a multi-panel display of the viewers during viewing of the video streams. In another aspect, the systems and methods may capture and create one or more digital asset from viewer-generated content, such as a physi...