ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,036, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Smart camera user interface" was invented by Teresa Ko (Los Angeles), Hartwig Adam (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Mikkel Crone Koser (Copenhagen, Denmark), Alexei Masterov (Mountain View, Calif.), Andrews-Junior Kimbembe (San Francisco), Matthew J. Bridges (New Providence, N.J.), Paul Chang (New York), David Petrou (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Adam Berenzweig (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of the present disclosure include actions of receiving image data of an image capturing a scene, receiving data describing one or more entities determin...