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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021

Filed:

Sep. 22, 2017
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Patrick S. Piemonte, San Francisco, CA (US);

Daniel De Rocha Rosario, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jason D Gosnell, San Jose, CA (US);

Peter Meier, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
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CPC ...
G06T 19/00 (2011.01); G06T 17/00 (2006.01); G06T 19/20 (2011.01); G01C 21/26 (2006.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G06T 15/20 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 19/006 (2013.01); G01C 21/26 (2013.01); G01C 21/365 (2013.01); G02B 27/017 (2013.01); G06T 15/205 (2013.01); G06T 17/00 (2013.01); G06T 19/20 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0141 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0213 (2013.01); G06T 2210/56 (2013.01);
Abstract

An AR system that leverages a pre-generated 3D model of the world to improve rendering of 3D graphics content for AR views of a scene, for example an AR view of the world in front of a moving vehicle. By leveraging the pre-generated 3D model, the AR system may use a variety of techniques to enhance the rendering capabilities of the system. The AR system may obtain pre-generated 3D data (e.g., 3D tiles) from a remote source (e.g., cloud-based storage), and may use this pre-generated 3D data (e.g., a combination of 3D mesh, textures, and other geometry information) to augment local data (e.g., a point cloud of data collected by vehicle sensors) to determine much more information about a scene, including information about occluded or distant regions of the scene, than is available from the local data.


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