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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2023
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Ming Chuang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Praveen Gowda Ippadi Veerabhadre Gowda, San Jose, CA (US);
Baptiste Angles, Seattle, WA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices and methods that obtain and/or maintain a version of a 3D representation of a user's environment and provide limited access to the 3D representation to apps executing on the devices. This may involve providing changed versions of a 3D representation that obfuscate details of the 3D representation from which the apps would otherwise be able to determine or infer private information about the user and/or their physical environment. Versions of the 3D representation provided to one or more apps may be changed in various ways to make it difficult or impossible for an app to uniquely identify a user or their physical environment and/or make it difficult or impossible to determine private information about the user and/or the physical environment.