ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,609, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).
"Patch tracking image sensor" was invented by Martin Georg Zahnert (Zurich), Alexander Ilic (Zurich) and Erik Fonseka (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor suitable for use in an augmented reality system to provide low latency image analysis with low power consumption. The augmented reality system can be compact, and may be small enough to be packaged within a wearable device such as a set of goggles or mounted on a frame resembling ordinary eyeglasses. The image sensor may receive information about a region of an imaging array a...