ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,261, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Reconfiguring reality using a reality overlay device" was invented by Chris Kalaboukis (Los Gatos, Calif.), Stephan Douris (San Jose, Calif.), Marc Perry (San Francisco) and Barry Crane (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Virtual entities are displayed alongside real world entities in a wearable reality overlay device worn by the user. Information related to an environment proximate to the wearable device is determined. For example, a position of the wearable device may be determined, a camera may capture an image of the envir...