SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DSP FAST BOOT
    14.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240305877A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-12

    申请号:US18665624

    申请日:2024-05-16

    Applicant: Snap Inc.

    CPC classification number: H04N23/617 H04N23/65 H04N23/71 H04N23/73

    Abstract: System, methods, devices, and instructions are described for fast boot of a processor as part of camera operation. In some embodiments, in response to a camera input, a digital signal processor (DSP) of a device is booted using a first set of instructions. Capture of image sensor data is initiated using the first set of instructions at the DSP. The DSP then receives a second set of instructions and the DSP is programmed using the second set of instructions after at least a first frame of the image sensor data is stored in a memory of the device. The first frame of the image sensor data is processed using the DSP as programmed by the second set of instructions. In some embodiments, the first set of instructions includes only instructions for setting camera sensor values, and the second set of instructions includes instructions for processing raw sensor data into formatted image files.

    Eyewear waveguide with reflector
    15.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12085787B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-10

    申请号:US18116203

    申请日:2023-03-01

    Applicant: Snap Inc.

    CPC classification number: G02C7/088 G02B6/1245 G02C5/006 G03B21/142

    Abstract: Eyewear including a frame, a projector supported by the frame, and a lens supported by the frame. The lens has a first surface facing an eye of the user and a second surface facing away from the eye of the user when the frame is worn. The lens also includes a waveguide defined by the first and second surfaces to receive light from the projector. An input light coupler and an output light coupler are on the first surface of the lens and at least one reflector is positioned on a second surface of the lens to redirect light received from the input coupler and/or the output coupler to redirect light having an angle of incidence with respect to the second surface of the lens that would result in that portion of the light exiting the waveguide through the second surface in the absence of the at least one reflector.

    AR/VR ENABLED CONTACT LENS
    16.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230350203A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-02

    申请号:US17661498

    申请日:2022-04-29

    Applicant: Snap Inc.

    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for performing operations for displaying virtual content on a contact lens. The operations comprise causing the contact lens to operate in a first display mode to allow unobstructed light associated with a real-world environment to be received by a pupil of a user; detecting a condition associated with display of virtual content; selecting between a second display mode and a third display mode as a new display mode in which to operate the contact lens, the second display mode obstructing a portion of the light associated with a real-world environment received by the pupil with the virtual content, the third display mode obstructing all of the light associated with a real-world environment received by the pupil with the virtual content; and transitioning the contact lens from operating in the first display mode to operating in the new display mode in response to detecting the condition.

    Wristwatch based interface for augmented reality eyewear

    公开(公告)号:US11714280B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-01

    申请号:US17446905

    申请日:2021-09-03

    Applicant: Snap Inc.

    Abstract: Augmented reality eyewear devices allow users to experience a version of our “real” physical world augmented with virtual objects. Augmented reality eyewear may present a user with a graphical user interface that appears to be in the airspace directly in front of the user thereby encouraging the user to interact with virtual objects in socially undesirable ways, such as by making sweeping hand gestures in the airspace in front of the user. Anchoring various input mechanisms or the graphical user interface of an augmented reality eyewear application to a wristwatch may allow a user to interact with an augmented reality eyewear device in a more socially acceptable manner. Combining the displays of a smartwatch and an augmented reality eyewear device into a single graphical user interface may provide enhanced display function and more responsive gestural input.

    AUGMENTED REALITY EYEWEAR WITH X-RAY EFFECT

    公开(公告)号:US20230007227A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-05

    申请号:US17839579

    申请日:2022-06-14

    Applicant: Snap Inc.

    Abstract: Eyewear providing an interactive augmented reality experience to users in a first physical environment viewing objects in a second physical environment (e.g., X-ray effect). The second environment may be a room positioned behind a barrier, such as a wall. The user views the second environment via a sensor system moveable on the wall using a track system. As the user in the first environment moves the eyewear to face the outside surface of the wall along a line-of-sight (LOS) at a location (x, y, z), the sensor system on the track system repositions to the same location (x, y, z) on the inside surface of wall. The image captured by the sensor system in the second environment is wirelessly transmitted to the eyewear for displayed on the eyewear displays, providing the user with an X-ray effect of looking through the wall to see the objects within the other environment.

    IMAGE AND POINT CLOUD BASED TRACKING AND IN AUGMENTED REALITY SYSTEMS

    公开(公告)号:US20200219312A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-09

    申请号:US16824297

    申请日:2020-03-19

    Applicant: Snap Inc.

    Abstract: Systems and methods for image based location estimation are described. In one example embodiment, a first positioning system is used to generate a first position estimate. Point cloud data describing an environment is then accessed. A two-dimensional surface of an image of an environment is captured, and a portion of the image is matched to a portion of key points in the point cloud data. An augmented reality object is then aligned within one or more images of the environment based on the match of the point cloud with the image. In some embodiments, building façade data may additionally be used to determine a device location and place the augmented reality object within an image.

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