Apple is looking to incorporate AR technology into the iPhone’s Measure app in a bid to improve accuracy and allow automatic annotation of the object you’re interested in. That’s according to a new patent, seen by AppleInsider.
In future, pointing your iPhone camera at an object could automatically get you an on-screen notification of its measurements. It will do it through AR, and it will do it in part through Machine Learning on different types of objects. «Automatic measurements based on object classification,» is a newly-revealed patent application. It’s concerned with how to determine which object you’re interested in, then how measure it accurately. The patent application is particularly broad, including «devices, systems, and methods that obtain a three-dimensional (3D) representation of a physical environment.» The detail generated is based on a whole series of different sensors and measurements to do with «depth data and light intensity image data.»
Check It Out: Patent Suggests AR Functions Coming to iPhone Measure App
