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Apple patents device that scans your face after you take it off your wrist

Patent drawing
Patent drawing from the official filing.

This patent describes a wearable computer that prompts you to take it off your body before it uses its sensors to scan your appearance. The device then uses this captured data to automatically create a digital representation of you based on your physical features.

Why it mattersThis could lead to wearables that create personalized avatars or digital twins by scanning the user directly, rather than relying on manual input or external cameras.

In the filing’s own words

In some examples, a computer system displays a prompt to remove the computer system from a body of a user while the computer system is placed on the body of the user so that the computer system can capture information about the user for generating a representation of the user.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A computer system that is configured to communicate with one or more display generation components, the computer system comprising: one or more processors; and memory storing one or more programs configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for: while the computer system is placed on a body of a user, displaying, via the one or more display generation components, a prompt instructing to remove the computer system from the body of the user and to use the computer system to capture information related to an appearance of the user; subsequent to displaying the prompt instructing to remove the computer system from the body of the user, detecting that the computer system has been removed from the body of the user; and after detecting that the computer system has been removed from the body of the user, capturing, via one or more sensors in communication with the computer system, information related to the appearance of the user, wherein the computer system is configured to use the information captured via the one or more sensors to generate a representation of the user, wherein: the information captured via the one or more sensors includes information about an appearance of a respective portion of the user; and the representation of the user that is generated based on the information captured via the one or more sensors has an appearance that is automatically determined based on the appearance of the respective portion of the user that is represented by the information captured via the one or more sensors.

Facts

Company
Apple (Apple Inc.)
Official title
Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for generating and displaying a representation of a user
Patent number
US12771930B2
Application number
17988532
Filed
Nov 16, 2022
Granted
Oct 20, 2026
Inventors
6
Claims
46

Classified under

H04N 23/64 Electricity & electronicsG06F 3/167 Physics & computingG06T 19/00 Physics & computingG06F 3/0482 Physics & computing

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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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