Apple won 42 Patents today including one for VR Apple Developers relating to Improved Pathfinding for Virtual Agents - Patently Apple

Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a bid of 42 recently granted patents for Apple Inc. In this peculiar study we concisely screen a azygous patent that is aimed astatine Apple VR Developers. More specifically, the patent  relates to virtual Agents, and successful particular, to systems, methods, and devices for improved pathfinding for virtual agents. And arsenic always, we wrapper up this week's granted patent study with our accepted listing of the remaining granted patents that were issued to Apple today.

Method and Device for Improved Pathfinding

VR developers person asked Patently Apple to effort to constituent retired caller Apple patents relating to each things VR. On that note, Apple was granted a patent contiguous titled "Method and Device for Improved Pathfinding." It relates to virtual Agents, and successful particular, to systems, methods, and devices for improved pathfinding for virtual agents.

Apple's Patent Abstract: "In immoderate implementations, a method of improved pathfinding is performed astatine a virtual cause operating strategy including non-transitory representation and 1 oregon much processors coupled with the non-transitory memory. The method includes: determining an archetypal way for a virtual cause to a people destination based astatine slightest successful portion connected a navigation mesh of an XR environment; actuating locomotive elements of the virtual cause successful bid to determination the virtual cause according to the archetypal path; portion moving according to the archetypal path, detecting a node of a navigation graph; successful effect to detecting the node of the navigation graph: obtaining navigation accusation from the node of the navigation graph; and determining an updated way from the node to the people destination based astatine slightest successful portion connected the navigation mesh and the navigation information; and actuating the locomotive elements of the virtual cause according to the updated path."

Apple's patent FIG. 4 beneath is simply a artifact diagram of an illustration navigation architecture; FIG. 6A illustrates illustration three-dimensional (3D) environments; and FIG. 6B illustrates an illustration navigation mesh for 1 of the 3D environments successful FIG. 6A.

Apple's patent FIG. 8 beneath is simply a flowchart practice of a method of improved pathfinding.

For much connected this, reappraisal Apple's granted patent US 11532139 B1.

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