ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,298, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Dynamic contextual media filter" was invented by Ebony James Charlton (London), Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis (Los Angeles), Travis Chen (Los Angeles), Kevin Dechau Tang (New York) and Kaveh Anvaripour (Culver City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contextual filter system configured to perform operations that include, capturing an image frame at a client device, wherein the image frame includes a depiction of an object, identifying an object category of the object based on the depiction of the object within the image frame, accessing media content associate...