ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,358, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Foveated sensing for extended reality" was invented by Jake Kaiser (Lafayette, Colo.) and Weston Welge (Boulder, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extended Reality (XR) system that provides services for determining three-dimensional (3D) data of physical objects in a real-world scene is provided. The XR system receives a request from an application to initiate a spatial scan of a real-world scene. In response, the XR system captures video frame data of the real-world scene and captures a pose of the XR system. The XR system determines a physical object i...