US Patent Issued to Apple on July 14 for "Context-based object viewing within 3D environments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,554, issued on July 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Context-based object viewing within 3D environments" was invented by Alexandre Da Veiga (San Francisco), Tobias Rick (Mountain View, Calif.) and Timothy R. Pease (Emerald Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that present views of media objects using different viewing states determined based on context. In some implementations, a view of a 3D environment is presented. Then, a context associated with viewing one or more media objects within the 3D environment is determined, the ...