Smart Glasses Patent Blocks Accidental Touch Commands
Every time you put on or take off a pair of smart glasses, your fingers brush the frame and accidentally trigger something.…
494 filings · category
AR/VR patents
The Big Tech patents worth knowing in ar/vr, in plain English. Updated weekly from new USPTO publications.
Recent filings
494 total
New Apple Patent Filters Video Based on Your Gaze Direction
Apple has filed a patent for a system that watches where your eyes point and blurs everything else before sending video over…
Apple Patents a Way to Pull Live Camera Feeds Into Augmented Reality Spaces
Imagine popping open a virtual room and pinning your front-door camera feed to one wall — live, in 3D, without switching apps.…
Apple Patents a System That Knows Where Your Headset Lenses Are After You Adjust Them
When you slide the lenses on a headset to fit your face, the device has no idea where they ended up —…
Google Patents a Way to Drag Virtual Objects Across Real-World Surfaces in AR
Imagine pinning a virtual sticky note to your wall, then sliding it over to your desk without it floating awkwardly in mid-air.…
Google Patents a System That Moves an On-Screen Pointer by Turning Your Head
Google is working on a way to let you navigate menus on a headset just by turning your head — no hand…
Google Patents a Prism Assembly That Prepares Light for Injection Into AR Glasses
Getting light from a tiny projector into the paper-thin lens of a pair of AR glasses is one of the hardest optical…
Meta Patents Technology That Stops Virtual Hands Passing Through AR Buttons
Anyone who has used a VR or AR headset knows the weird moment when your virtual hand phases right through the button…
Meta Patents a VR Display That Syncs Each Eye's Lighting Separately to Cut Motion Blur
VR headsets typically have two separate screens — one for each eye. Meta's new patent describes a clever workaround: one shared screen…
Samsung Patents a Way to Control 3D Objects by Physically Moving Your Phone
Samsung is working on a way to manipulate 3D objects on your phone screen by physically tilting or moving the device itself…
Samsung Patents a System That Shows You What You Can Grab in VR
Picking up virtual objects in VR is still awkward — you often grab the wrong thing or nothing at all. Samsung is…
Qualcomm Patents a System That Predicts What You're About to Touch in VR
Before your hand even finishes moving, Qualcomm's patented system wants to know which virtual button you're heading for. It's a prediction engine…
Get the weekly Patentlyze email
We read every patent application Big Tech publishes and send you the ones worth knowing. Plain English, free, every week.