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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2021
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Arun Srivatsan Rangaprasad, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Anselm Grundhoefer, Campbell, CA (US);
Mohamed Selim Ben Himane, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Dhruv A. Govil, Vancouver, CA;
Joseph M. Luxton, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jean-Charles Bernard Marcel Bazin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Shubham Agrawal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that provide a visual marker including a plurality of markings arranged in a corresponding plurality of shapes. In some implementations, each marking is formed of a set of sub-markings separated by gaps and arranged according to a respective shape, and the gaps of the plurality of markings are configured to encode data and indicate orientation of the visual marker. In some implementations, the plurality of markings are arranged in a plurality of concentric rings of increasing size. In some implementations, the orientation is encoded in a first set of gaps and data in a second set of gaps of the gaps in the plurality of markings.