ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,687, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device and image mapping method" was invented by Yejin Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Pius Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Chaebin Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device according to an embodiment of the disclosure may be configured to: obtain a raster image including one or more real objects using one or more cameras, generate a vector image by vectorizing the raster image, generate an edit screen by superposing the vector image and the raster image, display a user interface representation i...