US Patent Issued to Snap on March 25 for "Reducing startup time of augmented reality experience" (Austrian, Dutch, Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,016, issued on March 25, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Reducing startup time of augmented reality experience" was invented by Jeroen Diederik Hol (Hengelo, Netherlands), Matthias Kalkgruber (Vienna), Erick Mendez Mendez (Vienna), Niall Murphy (Dublin), Gerald Nilles (Culver City, Calif.) and Mathieu Emmanuel Vignau (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for improving the startup time of a six-degrees of freedom tracking system is described. An augmented reality system receives a device initialization request and activates a first set of sensors in response to the device initialization request. The ...