ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,496, issued on July 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Adaptive blurring of virtual content" was invented by Nahckjoon Kim (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Anshu K. Chimalamarri (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An MR device may determine whether to perform an operation to blur on the virtual content. A pixel may be sampled, as well several pixels with a vicinity, or predetermined distance, from the sampled pixel. When a threshold number of pixels is used to present the virtual content, a blur operation is performed on the pixels, thus blurring the virtual content, which may cause the virtual content to be at l...