ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,791, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to zSpace Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Six-degree of freedom pose estimation of a stylus" was invented by Mark Wilson (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for six-degree of freedom (6-DoF) pose estimation of a user input device, e.g., in a three-dimensional (3D) system rendering interactive augmented reality (AR) and/or virtual reality (VR) experiences include the user input device capturing, via a camera disposed at a forward-facing tip of the user input device, images in a direction the user input device is directed and providing the images to a computer system. The ...