US Patent Issued to SNAP on Sept. 1 for "Double camera streams" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,317, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Double camera streams" was invented by Cai Zhu (Zhangjiajie, China), Chuangwen Liu (Shenzhen, China), Haoyun Wu (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.) and Weihao Yuan (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Image augmentation effects are provided on a device that includes a display and a camera. A first stream of image frames captured by the camera is received and an augmented reality effect is applied thereto to generate an augmented stream of image frames. The augmented stream of image frames is displayed on the display in real time. A second stream of image ...