ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,959, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Skeletal tracking for real-time virtual effects" was invented by Olha Rykhliuk (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Jonathan Solichin (Arcadia, Calif.), Olesia Voronova (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Artem Yagodin (Playa del Rey, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are presented for capturing a video in real-time by an image capture device using a skeletal pose system. The skeletal pose system identifies first pose information in the video, applies a first virtual effect to the video in response to identifying the first pose information, identifies seco...