US 12,271,517 B1
Bending-assisted calibration for extended reality tracking
Thomas Faeulhammer, Vienna (AT); Matthias Kalkgruber, Vienna (AT); Thomas Muttenthaler, Vienna (AT); Tiago Miguel Pereira Torres, Vienna (AT); and Daniel Wolf, Mödling (AT)
Assigned to Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed by Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 29, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/478,352.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/01 (2006.01); A61B 5/16 (2006.01); G06T 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/012 (2013.01) [A61B 5/16 (2013.01); G06T 17/00 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
obtaining bending data indicative of bending of an extended reality (XR) device to accommodate a body part of a user wearing the XR device;
determining, based on the bending data, whether to use previously identified biometric data in a tracking operation;
responsive to determining whether to use the previously identified biometric data, selecting a mode of the XR device, the selected mode being a first mode or a second mode, the first mode being based on determining to use the previously identified biometric data in the tracking operation and the second mode being based on determining not to use the previously identified biometric data in the tracking operation; and
using the selected mode to initialize the tracking operation.