US Patent Application 18344294. Video Pipeline simplified abstract

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Video Pipeline

Organization Name

Apple Inc.


Inventor(s)

Arthur Y. Zhang of San Jose CA (US)

Ray L. Chang of Saratoga CA (US)

Timothy R. Oriol of San Jose CA (US)

Ling Su of Los Altos CA (US)

Gurjeet S. Saund of Saratoga CA (US)

Guy Cote of San Jose CA (US)

Jim C. Chou of San Jose CA (US)

Hao Pan of Sunnyvale CA (US)

Tobias Eble of San Francisco CA (US)

Avi Bar-zeev of Oakland CA (US)

Sheng Zhang of Milpitas CA (US)

Justin A. Hensley of Mountain View CA (US)

Geoffrey Stahl of San Jose CA (US)

Video Pipeline - A simplified explanation of the abstract

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18344294 titled 'Video Pipeline

Simplified Explanation

A mixed reality system is described in this patent application.

  • The system consists of a device and a base station that communicate wirelessly.
  • The device has sensors that gather information about the user's environment and the user.
  • The sensor data is transmitted to the base station via the wireless connection.
  • The base station processes the sensor information and generates frames or slices.
  • These frames or slices are compressed and sent back to the device for decoding and display.
  • The base station offers more computing power than traditional standalone systems.
  • The wireless connection does not restrict the device's movement like in tethered systems.
  • The system aims to maintain a target frame rate and minimize latency in rendering, transmission, and display.


Original Abstract Submitted

A mixed reality system that includes a device and a base station that communicate via a wireless connection The device may include sensors that collect information about the user’s environment and about the user. The information collected by the sensors may be transmitted to the base station via the wireless connection. The base station renders frames or slices based at least in part on the sensor information received from the device, encodes the frames or slices, and transmits the compressed frames or slices to the device for decoding and display. The base station may provide more computing power than conventional stand-alone systems, and the wireless connection does not tether the device to the base station as in conventional tethered systems. The system may implement methods and apparatus to maintain a target frame rate through the wireless link and to minimize latency in frame rendering, transmittal, and display.