ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,902, issued on April 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Occlusion classification and feedback" was invented by Brett D. Miller (San Carlos, Calif.), Daniel K. Boothe (San Francisco) and Martin E. Johnson (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a method of detecting an occlusion of an image sensor is performed at a device including one or more image sensors, one or more speakers, one or more processors, and non-transitory memory. The method includes receiving, from the one or more image sensors, an image of a physical environment. The method includes detecting, based on the image of ...