Though seems that in these moments his popularity has lowered, Pokemon GO has demonstrated the potential of the reality augmented. The benefits of the App Store have made it clear this potential to Apple, although a new patent reveals that the Cupertino already were planning to launch devices AR much before the release of the popular title of Niantic. Apple acquired the company Flyby medium at the beginning of this year and this would be the first patent related with that company that is would have awarded Tim Cook and company.
The patent has received the name of “Navigation inertial based in it visual” and describes a system that would allow to a device position is to Yes same in a space three-dimensional using data collected with the camera and other sensors present in said device. The system would combine images from your camera with measures provided by a gyroscope and an aceletrometro, among other sensors, to create an image of the position in real time of the device in a physical space.
Apple would be working on augmented reality devices
The inertial navigation system based on the visual that describes Apple could get a precision with a margin of error of centimeters without a GPS receiver or a mobile network. The problem is that this system could not be used in mobile devices that we know by its high demand for processing. To counter the limitation, the system that details this patent would use something called “filter reverse of window sliding” that minimizes the load computational using code predictive to position the orientation relative of them objects with the device.
According to Apple, a device that uses this technology could be used to show us where a product is located in a store or to create a map in three dimensions from the environment. According to the second description, we can think that this device could create a map like some maps show that us if we put 3D normal mode, where we see drawings of buildings in a simulated 3D.
As we always say, that a company has patented something does not mean that we are going to see it in a future device. In this case, I think that Apple intends to patent an idea so anyone can make use of it or, if it does, you have to pay them. It time we will tell if I am in it true or not.
