Apple's First Industrial Augmented Reality Camera System Patent was published today
Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's first industrial Augmented Reality camera system that relates to a method of and system for projecting digital information onto real objects in a real environment. Apple describes projective AR applications that could be used for prototyping architectural design, car manufacture and more. Whether Apple will be able to use this invention in context to Project Titan is unknown at this time.
In Apple's patent background they note that augmented reality (AR) systems could enhance a real environment by directly visually augmenting the real environment by computer-generated digital information. For example, such digital information is virtual information for augmenting visual impressions of the real environment. Typical applications are known as, for example, so-called projector-based AR, projective AR or spatial AR.