If I found the correct video from today and patent you're talking about, this just seems like it's Nintendo patenting the thing in Tears of the Kingdom where you can make statues out of photos of enemies in the exact pose you took a photo of. The Youtuber just put Wind Waker in the thumbnail because the inventor listed on the patent's first game at Nintendo was Wind Waker HD, and the specific wiki they checked just... didn't list the fact they're credited as Programming Director for TotK.
I could just have the wrong video though, I just looked up "Wind Waker patent" on Google and sorted to only the past month of results and that's what came up.