Apple Inc.

Motohide Hatanaka

Anthony Michael Ashcroft

Yang Zhou

Albert Wang

Nicholas R Trincia

Seul Bi Kim

Sara Rusignuolo

William K Smith

Wegene H Tadele

Bryan A Cloyd

Jack Pickup

Ayumi Kusano

A strap may have a strip of material. A flexible magnet and other layers may be embedded between outer layers of the strip. The outer layers may be formed from leather or other natural materials, fabric, polymer, or other materials. The strap may have a snap mechanism that removably couples the strap to the item. The strip may have left and right portions that are coupled together using sliders and the snap mechanism. The sliders may be fixedly attached to respective end portions of left and right portions of the strip. A first of the sliders may have a slot that allows the first slider to slide along the right strip portion and a second of the sliders may have a slot that allows the second slider to slide along the left strip portion so that the length of the strap may be adjusted.

Adjustable straps with snaps and sliding clasps

Aspects of the subject technology relate to a system including a reference device, a measurement device and a processor. The measurement device provides a three-dimensional (3-D) point map corresponding to first positions of a plurality of selected points on a torso of a user. The processor determines a shape of the torso based on the 3-D point map. The measurement device is sequentially placed on the plurality of selected points, and the 3-D point map represents the first positions of the plurality of selected points relative to a second position associated with a location in 3-D space of the reference device.

Body volume/shape determination using handheld devices

Growing community of inventors

Menlo Park, CA, United States of America

Motohide Hatanaka