Sony patents system that fixes AR map errors using other users' cameras
Sony describes a system for augmented reality that checks if a user's device is accurately tracking its position in a 3D map. If the tracking is inaccurate, the system asks another nearby user to send new images to update and correct the shared map.
In the filing’s own words
An information processing apparatus includes: an estimation accuracy determination unit that determines estimation accuracy of a position and a posture of a client estimated on the basis of a position and posture estimation image obtained by imaging a real space transmitted from the client and a 3D map of the real space; and a client specification unit that specifies another client that requests transmission of a 3D map update image for updating the 3D map on the basis of a determination result of the estimation accuracy.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: an estimation accuracy determination unit that determines estimation accuracy of a position and a posture of a client estimated on a basis of a position and posture estimation image obtained by imaging a real space transmitted from the client and a 3D map of the real space; and a client specification unit that specifies another client that requests transmission of a 3D map update image for updating the 3D map on a basis of a determination result of the estimation accuracy.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Group Corporation)
- Official title
- INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM
- Publication number
- US20260311363A1
- Application number
- 19108173
- Filed
- Aug 8, 2023
- Published
- Oct 8, 2026
- Inventors
- 6
- Claims
- 15
Classified under
G06T 7/75 Physics & computingG06T 7/74 Physics & computingG06T 2207/30244 Physics & computingMore from Sony in AR, VR & displays
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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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