New Apple patent: head-tracking and content optimization for battery level

Some time Internet "exploded" reports on the implementation of new technologies - the so-called head-tracking (determining the position of the camera in the scene on the monitor at the player's / operator's head position). It is designed to create a three-dimensional virtual reality on a computer or TV screen with the remote Wii Remote Camera.

Thanks to the camera system determines the user's location in space and adjusts the picture for any turn of his head. Thus, the user gets a more intuitive gameplay - with the ability to interact with the environment and feel inside.

The same technology Apple is planning to implement in their products through the use of a camera or other sensor device, and even longer He received a patent to create the application.

"In determining the user's position in space, the device will be able to change the vision of three-dimensional objects on the screen. With the use of the image objects in the display will change, which will create the impression of viewing their displacement from different angles. " So says the description of the new application. Also, due to the technology objects on the screen will reflect the light and even the environment (if they have a corresponding surface). This ensures a more realistic effect.

The creator of head-tracking technology - Johnny Chung Lee (Johnny Chung Lee), at that time was a student at Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie Mellon University) (2007).

Another patent obtained Apple, is a function of determining a desired video content for playing different battery. (If the charge is insufficient, the application will allow to adapt the content - the picture resolution, the transmission rate of the video data in bits, the brightness display, audio volume and other features.) With this option the user can view the video until the end, even with a small charge battery.