ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,927, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Contextual media filter search" was invented by Ebony James Charlton (Los Angeles), Hao Hu (Bellevue, Wash.), Yanjia Li (Torrance, Calif.), Xing Mei (Los Angeles) and Kevin Dechau Tang (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for receiving an input onto a graphical user interface at a client device, capturing an image frame at the client device, the image frame comprising a depiction of an object, identifying the object within the image frame, accessing media content associated with the object within a media repository in response to identifying the ...