ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,684, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Buffered video recording" was invented by Chao Pang (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Jianliang Hao (Beijing), Haoyun Wu (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.) and Xiangying Ma (Laguna Beach, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided that detects a start of a camera session, captures initial raw data frames and stores them in memory. Upon determining that the camera session corresponds to a video recording session, the system activates a video recording pipeline and upon determining that the video recording pipeline is active, the system retrieves the initial...