US 11,915,400 B2
Location mapping for large scale augmented-reality
Richard McCormack, Princes Risborough (GB); and Qi Pan, London (GB)
Assigned to Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed by Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 10, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/837,713.
Application 17/837,713 is a continuation of application No. 16/833,160, filed on Mar. 27, 2020, granted, now 11,430,091.
Prior Publication US 2022/0301122 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. G06T 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01); G06T 19/00 (2011.01); H04W 4/021 (2018.01)
CPC G06T 5/006 (2013.01) [G06T 19/006 (2013.01); H04W 4/021 (2013.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.02); G06T 2207/10028 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30184 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
receiving a request that identifies a location, the request comprising metadata;
accessing a point cloud associated with the location responsive to the request;
determining a contextual condition based on the metadata from the request, the contextual condition including a perspective of the client device and temporal data that indicates a time of day of the request;
identifying a portion of the point cloud based on the contextual condition that includes the perspective and the time of day; and
loading the portion of the point cloud at a client device.