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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2018
Facebook Technologies, Llc, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Richard Andrew Newcombe, Seattle, WA (US);
Jakob Julian Engel, Seattle, WA (US);
Julian Straub, Redmond, WA (US);
Thomas John Whelan, Redmond, WA (US);
Steven John Lovegrove, Woodinville, WA (US);
Yuheng Ren, Newcastle, WA (US);
Facebook Technologies, LLC, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include determining a local position and a local orientation of a local device in an environment and receiving, by the local device and from a mapping system, object data for objects within the environment. The object data may include position data and orientation data for the objects and relationship data between the objects. The method may also include deriving, based on the object data received from the mapping system, and the local position and orientation of the local device, a contextual rendering of the objects that provides contextual data that modifies a user's view of the environment. The method may include displaying, using the local device, the contextual rendering of at least one of the plurality of objects to modify the user's view of the environment. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.