LIGHT OUTPUT
    631.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20240412669A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-12

    申请号:US18691431

    申请日:2022-09-15

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A wearable electronic device can include optical assemblies for providing visual output to a user. The optical assemblies can include a central display as well as a light track that surrounds at least a portion of the central display. Primary information and images can be provided at the central display to be received at a center region of a user's vision. Supplemental content and/or information can be provided by operation of the light track, which can be operated with relatively simple controls. The supplemental content and/or information can be received at a peripheral region of the user's vision. Accordingly. the inner and outer images produced by the separate mechanisms of the optical assembly can provide a single continuous image for observation by the user.

    Methods and Systems for Tracking Contexts

    公开(公告)号:US20240412516A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-12

    申请号:US18695273

    申请日:2022-09-16

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: In one implementation, a method of tracking contexts is performed at a device including an image sensor, one or more processors, and non-transitory memory. The method includes capturing, using the image sensor, an image of an environment at a particular time. The method includes detecting a context based at least in part on the image of the environment. The method includes, in accordance with a determination that the context is included within a predefined set of contexts, storing, in a database, an entry including data indicating detection of the context in association with data indicating the particular time. The method includes receiving a query regarding the context. The method includes providing a response to the query based on the data indicating the particular time.

    Warping a Frame based on Pose and Warping Data

    公开(公告)号:US20240412320A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-12

    申请号:US18694355

    申请日:2022-09-08

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: In some implementations, a device includes an environmental sensor, a display, a non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the environmental sensor, the display and the non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes generating, at a first time, intermediate warping data for a warping operation to be performed on an application frame. In some implementations, the method includes obtaining, at a second time that occurs after the first time, via the environmental sensor, environmental data that indicates a pose of the device within a physical environment of the device. In some implementations, the method includes generating a warped application frame by warping the application frame in accordance with the pose of the device and the intermediate warping data. In some implementations, the method includes displaying the warped application frame on the display.

    ACCESSING FUNCTIONS OF EXTERNAL DEVICES USING REALITY INTERFACES

    公开(公告)号:US20240411497A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-12

    申请号:US18811647

    申请日:2024-08-21

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: In an exemplary process, an electronic device obtains, from an external device, information specifying one or more available functions of the external device, and image data of a physical environment that includes the external device is captured by an image sensor. The electronic device then determines that the image data includes a representation of the external device, and in response, a display concurrently presents a view of the physical environment and a user-activatable virtual object corresponding to a first function of the one or more available functions of the external device, where the user-activatable virtual object is selected from a plurality of candidate user-activatable virtual objects based on the information specifying the one or more available functions of the external device.

    Object-Based Glint Grouping
    635.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20240411422A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-12

    申请号:US18695280

    申请日:2022-08-30

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: In one implementation, a method of displaying a plurality of glints method includes capturing an image of an environment including a plurality of objects. The method includes detecting, in the image of the environment, a plurality of actionable items respectively associated with a plurality of actions. The method includes relating the actionable items to respective ones of the plurality of objects. The method includes displaying a plurality of group user interface elements in respective association with the plurality of objects. The method includes detecting user input directed to a particular group user interface element of the plurality of group user interface elements associated with a particular object of the plurality of objects. The method includes displaying a plurality of user interface elements in respective association with those of the plurality of actionable items related to the particular object.

    USER INTERFACES FOR CONTROLLING AN INSERTION MARKER

    公开(公告)号:US20240411420A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-12

    申请号:US18747271

    申请日:2024-06-18

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Inventor: Marcos ALONSO

    Abstract: Some embodiments described in this disclosure are directed to user interfaces for controlling the display of an additional representation of content surrounding an insertion marker while maintaining the ability to control the insertion marker using, for example, a content editing application. Enhancing these interactions improves the user's experience with the device and decreases user interaction time, which is particularly important where input devices are battery-operated.

    Housing as an I/O Device
    638.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20240411342A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-12

    申请号:US18810901

    申请日:2024-08-21

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: There are provided systems, devices and methods for operating a housing for an electronic device as an input/output (I/O) device. In one embodiment, an electronic device includes a housing configured to function as an integrated housing and I/O device and one or more sensors obscured by a panel of the housing. The one or more sensors being configured to sense via the panel of the housing. The electronic device further includes a processing unit communicatively coupled to the one or more sensors and configured to interpret electrical signals generated by the one or more sensors. One or more output devices are communicatively coupled to the processing unit and configured to provide an output in response to the one or more sensors generating an electrical signal.

    AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION SYSTEM
    639.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20240411308A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-12

    申请号:US18628599

    申请日:2024-04-05

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Autonomous navigation of a vehicle along one or more portions of a driving route based on monitoring, at the vehicle, various features of the route as the vehicle is manually navigated along the route to develop a characterization of the route is described. The characterization is progressively updated with repeated manual navigations along the route, and autonomous navigation of the route is enabled when a confidence indicator of the characterization meets a threshold indication. Characterizations can be updated in response to the vehicle encountering changes in the route and can include a set of driving rules associated with the route, where the driving rules are developed based on monitoring the navigation of one or more vehicles of the route. Characterizations can be uploaded to a remote system which processes data to develop and refine route characterizations and provide characterizations to one or more vehicles.

    Electronic Device System With Supplemental Lenses

    公开(公告)号:US20240411104A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-12

    申请号:US18807829

    申请日:2024-08-16

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A head-mounted device may have a display that displays content for a user. Head-mounted support structures in the device support the device on the head of the user. A non-removable lens system may be supported by the head-mounted support structures. The head-mounted support structures may be configured to receive a removable supplemental lens system. The removable supplemental lens system may be used to customize the head-mounted display to accommodate the user's vision. Information such as information on the optical characteristics of the removable supplemental lens system and the user's eyeglass prescription may be stored in the removable supplemental lens system using bar codes, text, programmable memory, or other data storage. When the removable supplemental lens system is installed in the head-mounted device, control circuitry in the head-mounted device may retrieve the stored information. A gaze tracker system or other sensors may be used in retrieving the stored information.

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