US 12,422,917 B2
Operating modes for reducing distraction in extended reality environments
Grant H. Mulliken, Los Gatos, CA (US); Anura A. Patil, San Francisco, CA (US); Brian Pasley, Berkeley, CA (US); Christine Godwin, Santa Clara, CA (US); Eve Ekman, San Francisco, CA (US); Jonathan Hadida, Redwood City, CA (US); Lauren Cheung, Los Altos, CA (US); Mary A. Pyc, Campbell, CA (US); Patrick O. Eronini, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Raphael A. Bernier, Seattle, WA (US); Steven A. Marchette, San Jose, CA (US); and Fletcher R. Rothkopf, Los Altos, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 21, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/371,138.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/409,181, filed on Sep. 22, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0104792 A1, Mar. 28, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06T 19/00 (2011.01)
CPC G06F 3/011 (2013.01) [G06F 3/013 (2013.01); G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06T 19/006 (2013.01); G06T 2200/24 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wearable system, comprising:
a head-mounted display;
a set of sensors; and
a processor configured to:
determine a current activity of the user;
determine a focus level associated with the current activity;
in response to the focus level exceeding a first threshold, determine that a first activation criteria has been met;
in response to determining that the first activation criteria has been met, enter a first focus mode that reduces distraction in an extended reality environment; and
while in the first focus mode:
receive imaging data of a physical environment around a user using the set of sensors; and
cause the head-mounted display to display the extended reality environment that includes a reproduction of a first portion of the physical environment in which a distracting object in the first portion of the physical environment is replaced with additional content;
in response to the focus level exceeding a second threshold, determine that a second activation criteria has been met;
in response to determining that the second activation criteria has been met, entering a second focus mode that reduces distraction in the extended reality environment; and
while in the second focus mode:
receive imaging data of the physical environment around the user using the set of sensors; and
cause the head-mounted display to display the extended reality environment that includes a modified representation of a second portion of the physical environment.