US Patent Issued to Apple on July 14 for "Methods and devices for detecting and identifying features in an AR/VR scene" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,483, issued on July 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods and devices for detecting and identifying features in an AR/VR scene" was invented by Jeffrey S. Norris (Saratoga, Calif.), Alexandre Da Veiga (San Francisco), Bruno M. Sommer (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ye Cong (Santa Clara, Calif.), Tobias Eble (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Moinul Khan (San Jose, Calif.), Nicolas Bonnier (Campbell, Calif.) and Hao Pan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining first pass-through image data characterized by a first pose. The method includes obtaining respective pixel characterization vectors for pixel...