US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Feb. 17 for "System and method for providing spatiotemporal visual guidance within 360-degree video" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,183, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"System and method for providing spatiotemporal visual guidance within 360-degree video" was invented by Sean Liu (Toronto), Rorik Henrikson (Toronto), Mark Parent (Toronto), Michael Glueck (Toronto) and Tovi Grossman (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Features described herein generally relate to providing spatiotemporal guidance within a 360-degree video. Particularly, while a 360-degree video is being displayed to a user, a current location of the view of the user within the 360-degree video is determined. Additionally, regions of in...