US Patent Issued to Snap on June 23 for "Multi-frame capture system for enhanced visual reasoning in augmented reality devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,741, issued on June 23, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Multi-frame capture system for enhanced visual reasoning in augmented reality devices" was invented by Viktoria Hwang (Monrovia, Calif.), Mitchell Kuppersmith (Los Angeles) and Karen Stolzenberg (Venice, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and system for visual reasoning in augmented reality environments employs adaptive multi-frame capture triggered by detection of user speech. Upon detecting speech, the device or system captures image frames at an initial frame capture rate, increasing capture frequency when a hand is detected in a captured image....