ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,434, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Computational photography features with depth" was invented by Ruofei Du (San Francisco) and David Kim (Zug, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including receiving an image as a portion of a real-world space, placing an anchor on the image, determining a position of the anchor, determine a depth associated with the position of the anchor, applying an image editing algorithm based on the depth to the captured image, and rendering the edited image."
The patent was filed on May 26, 2020, under Application No. 17/756,700.
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