US Patent Issued to Snap on Oct. 27 for "Image capturing while circumnavigating objects using mobile devices" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,272, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Image capturing while circumnavigating objects using mobile devices" was invented by Piotr Gurgul (Hergiswil, Switzerland) and Sharon Moll (Lachen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, computer readable medium, and methods for image capturing while circumnavigating objects using mobile devices are disclosed. Example methods include capturing an image, processing the image to identify an object within the image, determining a path around the object and a number of images to capture of the object, dividing the path by the number of images to d...