Using the Vision Pro for selfies? Maybe. Apple has been granted a patent for “Augmented Reality Self-Portraits.”
About the patent
The patent relates generally to media editing and augmented reality. In it, Apple notes that self-portrait digital photos or “selfies” have become a pop-culture phenomenon. Selfies are typically taken with a digital camera or smart phone held at arm’s length, pointed at a mirror or attached to a selfie stick to position the camera farther away from the subject and capture the background scene behind the subject.
Augmented reality (AR) is a live view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are “augmented” by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video or graphics. So, Apple figures, why not “AR Selfies”?
Summary of the patent
Here’s Apple’s (quite technical) abstract of the patent: “Systems, methods, apparatuses and non-transitory, computer-readable storage mediums are disclosed for generating AR self-portraits or “AR selfies.” In an embodiment, a method comprises: capturing, by a first camera of a mobile device, live image data, the live image data including an image of a subject in a physical, real-world environment; receiving, by a depth sensor of the mobile device, depth data indicating a distance of the subject from the camera in the physical, real-world environment; receiving, by one or more motion sensors of the mobile device, motion data indicating at least an orientation of the first camera in the physical, real-world environment; generating a virtual camera transform based on the motion data, the camera transform for determining an orientation of a virtual camera in a virtual environment; and generating a composite image data, using the image data, a matte and virtual background content selected based on the virtual camera orientation.”
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