ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,914, issued on July 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Dynamic proximity boundary for detecting proximate objects" was invented by Gregory D. Chu (Cupertino, Calif.), Joshua R. Ford (San Francisco), Maxime Uzan (Harnes, France) and Pavel V. Dudrenov (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Providing a visual treatment based on proximity to an obstruction includes collecting, by a device, a sensor data for an environment, and determining a velocity of the device. A boundary of a volume around the device is determined based on the velocity. If a physical object is detected within the boundary based on the sensor ...