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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2020
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Shree K. Nayar, New York, NY (US);
Karl Bayer, New York, NY (US);
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus to target recipients of media content items comprises a camera, a communication interface, and a selector input device. The selector input device is communicatively coupled to the camera and the communication interface and has settings associated with groups of recipients. The groups of recipients include a first group and a second group. In response to receiving a selection of a first setting from the selector input device, the camera captures a first media content item and the communication interface transmits the first media content item to the first group. The selector input device can be a rotary wheel. To select the first setting from the plurality of settings, the user can rotate the rotary wheel to the first setting and press the rotary wheel. Other embodiments are described herein.