ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,818, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Video image stabilization via camera movement" was invented by Simon Fortin-Deschenes (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Anthony Ghannoum (Montreal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein reduce or eliminate camera motion blur during video capture by moving camera components to compensate for the motion. This may involve, for example, moving a camera component during each frame exposure to compensate for the motion (i.e., during image stabilization periods) and moving the camera component back in the other direction between the frame expos...