ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,323, issued on March 24.
"Augmented photo capture" was invented by Jan Heitger (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method can include displaying, via a display of an augmented reality (AR) device, views of image data obtained by a camera of the AR device as the AR device is moved by a user; storing each view of a plurality of the displayed views in association with a respective visibility matrix comprising at least one visibility matrix element indicative of visibility of a target object within the each view; retrieving a respective visibility matrix for a plurality of the stored displayed views; selecting ...