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Beijing August 24 news, Apple has always been a famous "low-key", from the Apple iPhone's "hunger marketing" to VR / AR technology patent applications, domestic and foreign media racked their brains want to break them The "secret", this mid-March, Apple announced two VR / AR patents, one is to observe the user's hand movement through the camera, the other solves the problem of the location of the mobile device in space, so as to achieve through the AR technology Face tracking.
Apple's "Vision Based Inertial Navigation" Patent
In recent days, Apple has engaged in research and development. This AR navigation patent is said to allow Lu Zhi to easily find a way back home. This is not a patent entitled “Visual-based inertial navigationâ€. A sensor module capable of measuring data and preprocessing, which includes data devices that can perform image data and inertial sensor measurements.
The device has a transmission function that collects measurement information from the sensor by means of a processor and uses a sliding window inverse filter (SWF) to map the relative device inversion of the object by using predictive coding, and minimizes the computational burden.
The main feature of the Sliding Window Inverse Filter (SWF) is that it can output an overlay image with position information. In general, Apple can use this AR technology patent to preprocess images and measurement data from the camera. And sensors get data so that you are ready to position your location and position.
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This AR patent is very practical in life. The user of Luchi, in particular, is definitely a great gospel. This technology is different from normal navigation. When you use a navigation application, once you are indoors or in some buildings When lost, these navigations don't work, and Apple's "Visual-based inertial navigation" patent can perform "indoor navigation" accurate to certain representative items in the building.
The AR technology does not require much tools. For example, when you enter a supermarket or shopping mall, it can display information on items in supermarkets or shopping malls. On the other hand, you can use depth sensors to form 3D images at a certain location. It is worth mentioning that this technology can be completed without the use of GPS, cellular mobile networks, WiFi, etc. Of course, it will inevitably result in the loss of power and the memory space for local storage of images, but these are not regarded as big problems. There will be solutions.
Apple's official AR technology did not disclose that it would be used on that medium. Will it mean that it can not only be used on smart glasses, mobile phones, and tablet computers?
Oh, yes, AR startup Flyby Media was received by Apple early on. Apple’s Executive Director Tim Cook interviewed a reporter from the Washington Post (Jena McGregor) and unexpectedly revealed that Apple is in the field of augmented reality. Plan .
Tim Cook said: "I think that augmented reality is extremely interesting and it is a core technology. So, yes, we have been doing a lot of different things behind the scenes."
Recently, in addition to the mad acquisition of VR and AR, Apple has continued to "tap corners." Apple has hired a large number of employees from Microsoft (Microsoft) and Lytro (a company dedicated to light photography). It has also been rumored that Apple is from Microsoft. The HoloLens team dug a lot of corners (ps: Microsoft's vomiting blood). These are enough to see Apple's determination in the AR field.