US Patent Issued to GoPro on May 13 for "Systems, methods, and apparatus for piggyback camera calibration" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,934, issued on May 13, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and apparatus for piggyback camera calibration" was invented by Andrew Russell (San Francisco) and Robert McIntosh (Marina Del Rey, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatus, and methods for piggyback camera calibration. Existing piggybacked capture techniques use a "beauty camera" and an "action camera" to capture raw footage. The user directly applies the EIS stabilization track of a piggybacked action camera to the cinematic footage to create desired stable footage. Unfortunately, since the action camera may have been slightly ...