US Patent Issued to Apple on June 2 for "Method and device for invoking a writing surface" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,272, issued on June 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method and device for invoking a writing surface" was invented by Jeffrey S. Norris (Saratoga, Calif.) and Michael J. Rockwell (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a method for invoking a writing surface. The method includes: detecting a physical plane within an image stream of a physical environment, wherein the image stream is associated with a field-of-view (FOV) of the one or more exterior-facing image sensors; in response to detecting the physical plane within the image stream: obtaining pose values for the physical plane; ...