US Patent Issued to Snap on May 12 for "Depth aware content rendering" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,455, issued on May 12, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Depth aware content rendering" was invented by Russell Douglas Patton (Playa Vista, Calif.) and James Powderly (Venice, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An eXtended Reality (XR) system provides methodologies for clipping virtual content displayed to a user. The XR system generates an XR user interface with virtual content using an XR user interface model. The XR system generates clipped virtual content from the virtual content by clipping virtual content that is located outside of the user's stereoscopic field of view and provides the XR user interface cont...