Sensor selection for plane detection
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsAitor Aldoma Buchaca, Oliver T Ruepp
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Abstract
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that use a gravity direction to select a subset of sensors to determine plane characteristics. For example, a process may include obtaining first sensor data from sensors of an HMD and based on the first sensor data a gravity direction is determined. The process may further select a subset of the sensors based on the gravity direction. The process may further obtain second sensor data from the subset and determine characteristics of the physical environment based on the second sensor data.
Claims23
A method comprising:
- at a head mounted device (HMD) having a processor and one or more sensors:
- obtaining first sensor data from the one or more sensors in a physical environment;
- based on the first sensor data, determining a direction of gravity
- selecting a subset of the one or more sensors based on the direction of gravity;
- obtaining second sensor data from the subset;
- and
- determining characteristics of the physical environment based on the second sensor data.
A head mounted device (HMD) comprising:
- a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium;
- one or more sensors;
- and
- one or more processors coupled to the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, wherein the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprises program instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the electronic device to perform operations comprising:
- obtaining first sensor data from the one or more sensors in a physical environment;
- based on the first sensor data, determining a direction of gravity;
- selecting a subset of the one or more sensors based on the direction of gravity;
- obtaining second sensor data from the subset;
- and
- determining characteristics of the physical environment based on the second sensor data.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, storing program instructions executable by one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- at a head mounted device (HMD) having a processor and one or more sensors:
- obtaining first sensor data from the one or more sensors in a physical environment;
- based on the first sensor data, determining a direction of gravity;
- selecting a subset of the one or more sensors based on the direction of gravity;
- obtaining second sensor data from the subset;
- and
- determining characteristics of the physical environment based on the second sensor data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.