Samsung patents wearable that uses mirrors to map virtual objects to real rooms
Samsung has filed a patent for a wearable device, such as a smart glasses or headset, that uses a camera to scan a room and identify reflective surfaces like mirrors. The device then uses these reflections to help place virtual objects accurately in the real world, improving the stability of augmented reality experiences.
In the filing’s own words
A wearable device is provided. The wearable device includes a camera, memory, comprising one or more storage media, storing instructions, and at least one processor including processing circuitry communicatively coupled to the camera and the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the wearable device to obtain an image with respect to an external space including the wearable device by using the camera, identify a portion of the image associated with a reflector reflecting light based on object recognition with respect to the image, and provide, by executing a software application by using information based on whether each of feature points in the image is included in the portion, a virtual space at least partially mapped to the external space.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A wearable device, comprising: a camera; memory, comprising one or more storage media, storing instructions; and at least one processor including processing circuitry communicatively coupled to the camera and the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the wearable device to: obtain an image with respect to an external space including the wearable device by using the camera, identify a portion of the image associated with a reflector reflecting light based on object recognition with respect to the image, and provide, by executing a software application by using information based on whether each of feature points of the image is included in the portion, a virtual space at least partially mapped to the external space.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- WEARABLE DEVICE FOR ACQUIRING INFORMATION ON EXTERNAL SPACE INCLUDING REFLECTOR AND METHOD THEREOF
- Publication number
- US20260330778A1
- Application number
- 19468377
- Filed
- Feb 3, 2026
- Published
- Oct 22, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06T 19/006 Physics & computingG02B 27/017 Physics & computingG06F 3/012 Physics & computingG06V 10/60 Physics & computingG06V 10/82 Physics & computingG06V 2201/07 Physics & computingMore from Samsung 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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