ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,452, issued on May 12, was assigned to ObjectVideo Labs LLC (Tysons, Va.).
"Virtual reality assisted camera placement" was invented by Ethan Shayne (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Donald Gerard Madden (Columbia, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for generating a placement of a camera. In some implementations, maintaining monitoring information of a property; generating a virtual model of a property; determining an initial placement location for a virtual camera in the virtual model; obtaining image data generated in the virtual model from the vir...