The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 44 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today.
The invention was part of Apple's acquisition of Flyby Media. One of the inventors is noted as Oriel Bergig who earned his Ph.D. in Computer Vision and Augmented Reality at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Apple's granted patent 9,824,495 was filed in Q1 2010 and published today by the US Patent and Trademark Office. Some of the work dates back to 2008. You could explore more of this fascinating invention here.