Patents by Inventor Reinhard Klapfer

Reinhard Klapfer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240077985
    Abstract: An electronic device may include one or more sensors that capture sensor data for a physical environment around the electronic device. The sensor data may be used to determine a scene understanding data set for an extended reality environment including the electronic device. The scene understanding data set may include information such as spatial information, information regarding physical objects in the extended reality environment, and information regarding virtual objects in the extended reality environment. When providing scene understanding data to one or more applications running on the electronic device, spatial and/or temporal restrictions may be applied to the scene understanding data set. Scene understanding data that is associated with locations within a boundary and that is associated with times after a cutoff time may be provided to an application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Divya T. Ramakrishnan, Brandon J. Van Ryswyk, Reinhard Klapfer, Antti P. Saarinen, Kyle L. Simek, Aitor Aldoma Buchaca, Tobias Böttger-Brill, Robert Maier, Ming Chuang
  • Patent number: 10820795
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method includes: determining an interpupillary distance (IPD) measurement for a user based on a function of depth data obtained by the depth sensor and image data obtained by the image sensor; and calibrating a head-mounted device (HMD) provided to deliver augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) content by setting one or more presentation parameters of the HMD based on the IPD measurement in order to tailor one or more AR/VR displays of the HMD to a field-of-view of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Thibaut Weise, Justin D. Stoyles, Michael Kuhn, Reinhard Klapfer, Stefan Misslinger