ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,874, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to A9.COM INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Dynamic occlusion for augmented reality interface" was invented by Jack Mousseau (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and techniques are described for dynamically disabling occlusion in augmented reality. Point cloud data representing a physical 3D environment may be generated. An occupancy grid including a plurality of cells representing the 3D physical environment may be generated including first occupancy data for a first cell of the occupancy grid. The first occupancy data may indicate that the first cell is occupied based on a point of...