US Patent Issued to Snap on Dec. 2 for "Magnified overlays correlated with virtual markers" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,466, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Magnified overlays correlated with virtual markers" was invented by Alexander Sourov (Seattle) and John James Robertson (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnification application for use with augmented reality (AR) eyewear devices. The magnification application enables a user of an eyewear device to activate a magnification overlay on a display whenever a camera on the eyewear device detects that the field of view includes a registered virtual marker. The magnified overlay includes one or more frames of the captured video data, presented according t...