US 11,796,312 B2
Body volume/shape determination using handheld devices
Wegene H. Tadele, San Francisco, CA (US); Albert Wang, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Motohide Hatanaka, Menlo Park, CA (US); Nicholas R. Trincia, San Francisco, CA (US); and William K. Smith, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/482,319.
Prior Publication US 2023/0086268 A1, Mar. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. G01B 17/06 (2006.01); G01S 5/30 (2006.01)
CPC G01B 17/06 (2013.01) [G01S 5/30 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
a reference device;
a measurement device configured to provide a three-dimensional (3-D) point map comprising a plurality of measured 3-D points that respectively correspond to first positions of a plurality of selected points at different locations on a torso of a user; and
a processor configured to determine a shape of the torso corresponding to the plurality of measured 3-D points of the 3-D point map,
wherein the measurement device is moved between the different locations on the torso of the user and placed on respective ones of the plurality of selected points to obtain the 3-D point map.