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
