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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2021
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Mohamed Selim Ben Himane, Milpitas, CA (US);
Anselm Grundhoefer, Saratoga, CA (US);
Arun Srivatsan Rangaprasad, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jeffrey S. Norris, Saratoga, CA (US);
Paul Ewers, San Francisco, CA (US);
Scott G. Wade, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Thomas G. Salter, Foster City, CA (US);
Tom Sengelaub, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that provide color visual markers that include colored markings that encode data, where the colors of the colored markings are determined by scanning (e.g., detecting the visual marker using a sensor of an electronic device) the visual marker itself. In some implementations, a visual marker is detected in an image of a physical environment. In some implementations, the visual marker is detected in the image by detecting a predefined shape of a first portion of the visual marker in the image. Then, a color-interpretation scheme is determined for interpreting colored markings of the visual marker that encode data by identifying a set of colors at a corresponding set of predetermined locations on the visual marker. Then, the data of the visual marker is decoded using the colored markings and the set of colors of the color-interpretation scheme.