ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,944, issued on July 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Passthrough pipeline" was invented by Christian I. Moore (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Moinul H. Khan (San Jose, Calif.), Seyedkoosha Mirhosseini (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Simon Fortin-Deschenes (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a method of pipelined blending an image with virtual content is performed by a device including an image sensor, a display, one or more processors, and non-transitory memory. The method includes capturing, with the image sensor, a first portion of an image of a physical environment. The method includes warpi...