US 11,861,255 B1
Wearable device for facilitating enhanced interaction
Jonathan Ive, San Francisco, CA (US); Julian Hoenig, Lisbon (PT); Julian Jaede, San Jose, CA (US); Seung Wook Kim, San Jose, CA (US); Chris Wilson, San Francisco, CA (US); William A. Sorrentino, III, Mill Valley, CA (US); Alan C. Dye, San Francisco, CA (US); and Stephen O. Lemay, Cupertino, CA (US)
Assigned to APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 15, 2018, as Appl. No. 16/010,373.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/521,184, filed on Jun. 16, 2017.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/14 (2006.01); G06T 11/60 (2006.01); G06V 20/20 (2022.01); G06V 40/16 (2022.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01); G06T 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/1423 (2013.01) [G06T 11/60 (2013.01); G06V 20/20 (2022.01); G06V 40/174 (2022.01); G06T 3/0093 (2013.01); G06T 11/001 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wearable electronic device, comprising:
a housing;
a wearer-facing camera positioned in the housing and configured to capture first images of a wearer's face;
an outward-facing display positioned in the housing and configured to display second images of the wearer's face, the second images based on the captured first images;
an outward-facing sensor configured to detect a position of an observer relative to an orientation of the wearable electronic device; and
a processor operatively coupled to the wearer-facing camera and the outward-facing display and configured to produce the second images of the wearer's face by modifying the captured first images based at least in part on the position of the observer relative to the orientation of the wearable electronic device, such that that the second images of the wearer's face conform to contours of the wearer's face from the observer's point of view.