Apple has filed for a patent (quantity US 20230298349 A1) for a “technique and system for visible augmentation of sporting occasions” on a Imaginative and prescient Professional.
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In regards to the patent submitting
The patent submitting pertains to techniques, strategies, and units for visible augmentation of sporting occasions. Within the patent submitting, Apple notes that folk have turn out to be accustomed to supplemental info being displayed whereas watching a sporting occasion on tv.
For instance, a yellow first-down line could also be displayed over the sphere throughout broadcast of a soccer recreation. As one other instance, the rating could also be displayed within the decrease proper nook throughout broadcast of a basketball recreation. Nevertheless, when bodily current at a sporting occasion, an individual watching the sporting occasion stay doesn’t obtain the identical expertise.
Apple needs to alter this with the Imaginative and prescient Professional. For instance, the headset might, when detecting an object throughout a sporting occasion, show information concerning the object onscreen.
Abstract of the patent submitting
Right here’s Apple’s summary of the patent submitting: “In a single implementation, a technique of displaying sports activities information is carried out by a tool together with a picture sensor, a show, a number of processors, and non-transitory reminiscence. The strategy contains acquiring, utilizing the picture sensor, a picture of a bodily atmosphere together with a sporting occasion. The strategy contains detecting, within the picture of the bodily atmosphere, an object. The strategy contains acquiring information concerning a present state of the sporting occasion with respect to the thing. The strategy contains displaying, on the show in affiliation with the bodily atmosphere, a illustration of the information.”
