US Patent Issued to Snap on May 13 for "Enabling the visually impaired with AR using force feedback" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,905, issued on May 13, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Enabling the visually impaired with AR using force feedback" was invented by Omer Cansizoglu (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Shariq Zameer (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method provide feedback to a user, such as a visually impaired user, to guide the user to an object in the field of view of a camera mounted on a frame worn on the head of the user. A processor identifies at least one object and a body part of the user in the field of view of the camera and tracks relative positions of the body part relative to the identified object. The...