US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 14 for "Content transformations based on reflective object recognition" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,149, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Content transformations based on reflective object recognition" was invented by Yutaka Yokokawa (Los Gatos, Calif.), Devin W. Chalmers (Oakland, Calif.), Brian W. Temple (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rahul Nair (Hayward, Calif.) and Thomas G. Salter (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that present virtual content based on detecting a reflective object and determining a three-dimensional (3D) position of the reflective object in a physical environment. For example, an example proces...