“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.]