US Patent Issued to ADEIA GUIDES on Sept. 8 for "Methods to improve passthrough experience in low light conditions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,347, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ADEIA GUIDES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods to improve passthrough experience in low light conditions" was invented by Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Ning Xu (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A physical object seen in a display of an XR device, such as an HMD in passthrough mode, in a virtual environment may be illuminated so that the physical object is adequately rendered by a display of the XR device. A lighting condition may be detected. A position of the physical object relative to the XR device may be determined, and an angle for directing a light cone to illuminate a por...