ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,492, issued on July 14, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"AR-based guidance for a user of a personal mobility system" was invented by Edmund Graves Brown (Los Angeles), Benjamin Lucas (San Francisco), Jonathan M. Rodriguez II (La Habra, Calif.) and Richard Zhuang (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing guidance, such as to the user of a personal mobility device, uses a head-worn device including a camera and one or more display devices. The method includes capturing images using the camera of the head-worn device and identifying an area, represented in the captured images, having a certain per...