ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,010, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for generating time-lapse videos" was invented by Thomas Derbanne (Paris), Maxim Karpushin (Paris) and Nicolas Rahmouni (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Positions of an image capture device may be used to estimate a time-lapse video frame rate with which time-lapse video frames are generated. The time-lapse video frame rate may be adjusted based on apparent motion between pairs of generated time-lapse video frames. The adjusted time-lapse video frame rate may be used to generate additional time-lapse video frames."

The patent was filed ...