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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2023
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 19/00 (2011.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G06T 3/16 (2024.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 19/003 (2013.01); G06F 3/165 (2013.01);
Abstract
Electronic devices can be used to generate virtual objects. In some examples, to reduce undesirable artifacts (e.g., flaws due to handshaking and/or hesitations) from occurring in the virtual object, a virtual pointer element is offset from a portion of an input device and is used to generate the virtual object in a three-dimensional environment. In some examples, to improve the visual characteristics of the generated virtual object, an elasticity model can be applied which includes various modes of physics. In some examples, sound is generated in response to movements of the virtual pointer element.