US Patent Issued to Apple on July 21 for "Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for applying virtual effects in three-dimensional environments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,657, issued on July 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for applying virtual effects in three-dimensional environments" was invented by Joanna M. Newman (San Jose, Calif.), Daniel Escudero (San Francisco), Corbin F. Peters (San Mateo, Calif.), Joseph-Alexander P. Weil (San Anselmo, Calif.), Juan Gril (San Francisco) and Jose Moises Tafolla Carmona (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system, in response to detecting the occurrence of a first event, applies a first virtual effect to the representation of the field of view of the one or more cameras...