Meta patents AR glasses that merge multiple cameras for sharper views
Meta describes a system for augmented reality glasses that uses a main wide-angle camera alongside smaller, selectively activated cameras. A computer chip processes images from these sensors using feature matching and optical flow to combine them into a single, higher-resolution picture.
In the filing’s own words
A distributed imaging system for augmented reality devices is disclosed. The system includes a computing module in communication with a plurality of spatially distributed sensing devices. The computing module is configured to process input images from the sensing devices based on performing a local feature matching computation to generate corresponding first output images. The computing module is further configured to process the input images based on performing an optical flow correspondence computation to generate corresponding second output images. The computing module is further configured to computationally combine first and second output images to generate third output images.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A distributed imaging system for augmented reality devices comprising: a computing module; a plurality of spatially distributed sensing devices in communication with the computing module, the plurality of sensing devices integrated in a frame of Augmented Reality glasses and further comprising: a first sensing device configured to acquire a sequence of first images, each first image comprising a first field of view; and one or more second sensing devices, each second sensing device configured to be selectively activated to acquire one or more second images, each second image respectively comprising a second field of view, wherein the respective second field of view of each second image is smaller than the first field of view; wherein the computing module is configured to: process, based on performing a local feature matching computation, one or more input images acquired by the first sensing device and one or more of the second sensing devices to generate a first output image; process, based on performing an optical flow correspondence computation, the one or more input images to generate a second output image set comprising one or more second output images; and computationally combine the first output image and the second output image set to generate a third output image having a resolution higher than a corresponding first image acquired by the first sensing device.
Facts
- Company
- Meta (Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC)
- Official title
- DISTRIBUTED SENSING FOR AUGMENTED REALITY HEADSETS
- Publication number
- US20260278813A1
- Application number
- 19673361
- Filed
- May 11, 2026
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Inventors
- 7
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06T 7/292 Physics & computingG06N 3/02 Physics & computingG06T 7/246 Physics & computingMore from Meta in AR, VR & displays
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