Monday, December 9, 2024
Apple Vision ProPatents

Apple wants you to be able to draw in a computer-generated environment on the Vision Pro

This graphic illustrates techniques for creating a drawing on a drawing surface in a computer-generated reality environment.

Apple wants you to be able to draw in a computer-generated environment on the Vision Pro. The company has been granted a patent for “techniques of enabling drawing in a computer-generated reality environment.”

About the patent

A computer-generated reality (CGR) environment refers to a wholly or partially simulated environment that people sense and/or interact with via an electronic system. A CGR environment can be based on different types of realities, including virtual reality and mixed reality. An electronic device optionally detects a user’s real movements and projects and simulates those movements within the CGR environment.

Apple’s patent describes techniques for providing an interactive computer-generated reality (CGR) environment for creating a virtual drawing on a drawing surface using an electronic system or device, where the CGR environment provides a user with a realistic and immersive experience while creating the virtual drawing as if the user was creating a real drawing in the real world. 

The described techniques enable a user to create a drawing without the need for traditional physical drawing tools. Further, because the drawing is created within a CGR environment, the described techniques allow a user to easily and efficiently manipulate (e.g., change, erase, alter) a portion of a drawing as desired. 

The described techniques enable a user to experience creating a virtual drawing within a CGR environment as if the user were creating a real drawing in the real environment, while simultaneously reducing some inconveniences associated with creating a real drawing in the real environment, according to Apple.

Summary of the patent

Here’s Apple’s abstract of the patent: “The present disclosure relates to techniques for providing an interactive computer-generated reality environment for creating a virtual drawing using one or more electronic devices. Specifically, the described techniques provide a user with a computer-generated reality environment, which can be based on different types of realities including virtual reality and mixed reality, for creating a virtual drawing on a drawing surface within the computer-generated reality environment. The computer-generated reality environment provides the user with a realistic and immersive experience while creating the virtual drawing.”

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Dennis Sellers
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Dennis Sellers is the editor/publisher of Apple World Today. He’s been an “Apple journalist” since 1995 (starting with the first big Apple news site, MacCentral). He loves to read, run, play sports, and watch movies.