US Patent Issued to Apple on March 17 for "Methods to achieve smooth zoom for video in cameras" (California, Hawaii Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,194, issued on March 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods to achieve smooth zoom for video in cameras" was invented by Buyue Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Walker J. Eagleston (San Francisco), Avijit S. Wasu (San Jose, Calif.), Jeffrey A. Brasket (Honolulu), Florian Ciurea (Campbell, Calif.), Zejing Wang (Mountain View, Calif.), Sean Z. Amadio (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Julio C. Hernandez Zaragoza (Cupertino, Calif.) and Tao Zhang (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electronic devices, methods, and program storage devices for achieving smooth zooming operations during video capture are disclosed. In parti...