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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2023
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Angela Blechschmidt, San Jose, CA (US);
Gefen Kohavi, San Carlos, CA (US);
Daniel Ulbricht, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Generating a virtual representation of an interaction includes determining a potential user interaction with a physical object in a physical environment, determining an object type associated with the physical object, and obtaining an object-centric affordance region for the object type, wherein the object-centric affordance region indicates, for each of one or more regions of the object type, a likelihood of user contact. The object-centric affordance region is mapped to a geometry of the physical object to obtain an instance-specific affordance region, is used to render the virtual representation of the interaction with the physical object.