Apple Inc.
RANGING MEASUREMENTS FOR SPATIALLY-AWARE USER INTERFACE OF A MOBILE DEVICE

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Abstract:

A method for identifying a second mobile device in a vicinity of a first mobile device includes performing, by the first mobile device, determining distance information corresponding to a distance between the first mobile device and the second mobile device, determining angular information indicating an angle between a pointing direction of the first mobile device and the second mobile device, determining, based on the distance information and the angular information, that a location of the second mobile device lies within a first spatial region relative to the first mobile device, and providing a user interface that displays an icon corresponding to the second mobile device in a specified position on the user interface based on the location of the second mobile device being within the first spatial region.

Status:
Application
Type:

Utility

Filling date:

26 Jun 2020

Issue date:

12 Nov 2020