ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,014, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Selecting frames during augmented reality reconstruction" was invented by Xiang Yu Yang (Xi'an, China), Yong Wang (Xi'an, China), Jun Guo (Xi'an, China), Zhi Yong Jia (Xian, China), Yu Pan (Shanghai) and Zhong Fang Yuan (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Performing a three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction process of a set of selected image frames. In some instances, a plurality of sequential image frames that are extracted from a video file (including video content created through the use of Augmented Reality) are converted into ...