US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 25 for "Situational awareness for head mounted devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,837, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Situational awareness for head mounted devices" was invented by Neal D Evans (Cupertino, Calif.) and Robert D Silfvast (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for providing situational awareness for HMD users. Some implementations involve providing a CGR experience to a first user wearing an HMD in a physical environment. Audio data or image data is obtained from a sensor at the physical environment during the CGR experience and an emotional state or direction of attention of ...