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 Media earlier this year and this would be the first patent related to the company that Tim Cook would have awarded and company.
The patent has received the name of “the visual-based inertial navigation” and describes a system that would allow a device positioned himself in a three-dimensional space using data collected with the camera and other sensors present on the 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 in devices of reality augmented
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 “Inverse of sliding window filter” that minimizes the computational load using predictive code to position the relative orientation of the device objects.
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, can think that this device could create a map similar to that us show some maps if put in 3D the mode normal, where see drawings of the buildings in a 3D simulated.
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. The time will say if I’m right or not.
