Patently Apple:

The synthetic group selfie can be a composition of still images, stored video images, or live streaming video images. The computing device can automatically arrange the individual selfies into the synthetic group selfie.

Like all patents, existence of the patent doesn’t guarantee that the underlying idea will ever see the light of day.

Great concept. Key here will be the implementation. I would love the ability to take a selfie with friends scattered across the country, even around the world, and have the result feel seamless, as if we were all within arms reach.