US Patent Issued to SHOPIFY on Dec. 23 for "Systems and methods for overlay of virtual object on proxy object" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,585, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SHOPIFY INC. (Ottawa).

"Systems and methods for overlay of virtual object on proxy object" was invented by Russ Maschmeyer (Berkeley, Calif.), Eric Andrew Florenzano (San Francisco), Brennan Letkeman (Calgary, Canada), Diego Macario Bello (Montreal) and Daniel Beauchamp (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To improve user experience when interacting with AR content within an AR environment, the AR content may be overlaid over a proxy object in a real-world space. However, issues such as the AR content and the proxy object not being aligned, or occlusion of the proxy object leading to glitchi...