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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2019
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Tong Chen, Cupertino, CA (US);
Mark T. Winkler, San Jose, CA (US);
Wenrui Cai, San Jose, CA (US);
Mehmet Mutlu, Stanford, CA (US);
Omid Momtahan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Orit A. Shamir, San Francisco, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed by which electronic devices that include line-of-sight optical communication systems may become optically aware of other electronic devices and perform optical communication handshakes with other devices. An electronic device may use a motion sensor to record its posing when it determines, during the performance of an optical communication handshake, that it is pointed at the electronic device with which it is performing the optical communication handshake (or that the other electronic device is within a field of view of the electronic device). A recorded device posing, in combination with optical communications and motion sensor data, may also be used to map another device's location and enable a user of an electronic device to pan away from and break optical communication with the other device, then easily return to a recorded posing that enables a continuation of optical communications with the other device.