“In 2012 we posted a patent report titled ‘Apple Invents a Killer 3D Imaging Camera for iOS Devices'” which was way ahead of Google’s Project Tango,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple.
“Interestingly Project Tango is shown to be using Apple’s new technology acquired from PrimeSense,” Purcher reports. “Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals techniques for manipulating mobile device imagery in a 3D space on future iDevices and Macs.”
Purcher reports, “While the device’s user touches and maintains fingertip contact with the virtual button via the touchscreen, the mobile device can operate in a special mode in which physical tilting of the mobile device about physical spatial axes causes the mobile device to adjust the presentation of the image of the three-dimensional object on the display, causing the object to be rendered from different viewpoints in the virtual space that the object virtually occupies. The mobile device can detect such physical tilting based on feedback from a gyroscope and accelerometer contained within the device.”
Much more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
How was that again…? Apple cannot innovate anymore…?
Isn’t this more or less what the Amazon Fire phone does?
No, the Amazon Fire phone does more or less what iOS 7 devices have been doing for about a year now: http://www.macworld.com/article/2042808/inside-the-technology-behind-ios-7s-parallax-effect.html
From what I gathered the iOS7 version was only a left to right parallax effect compared to FireOSs 3D effect moving left-right as well as up-down and the points between.
No, iOS 7 goes up down as well as anything in between.
If it were for a future camera, you’d see the patent published after the product was announced, just like with every other Apple patent in the past 15 years. Like many companies, they patent all ideas they come up with and they can request that the application be hidden until they specify.
Ooh look. I’ve got a patent boner. BFD to all reports of patents without announced products.
Sounds a bit similar to this Google sponsored research done at Carnegie Mellon… http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140805132148.htm