Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Alexandre Gueniot

Michael Jay Gilmore

Stephanie Horn

Onur Onder

Ramya Tridandapani

Eric Minghai Gao

Tyler Robert Adams

Shen Wang

Thomas Nhan

Jie Li

Matthew William Kernek

Constance Worsfold Gervais

Thomas R Mignone

Bharat Kumar Ahuja

Heather Joanne Alekson

Garrett William Brown

Michael Alexander Fuller

Cheng-Kai Chen

Cameron David Kikoen

Chris Welman

Adam Ross Le Doux

Jordan Krissi

Lishan Yu

Jonathan Ko

Rajat Chamria

Bharath Ramanathan

Matthew Jay Kotler

Christopher Doan

Lutz Gerhard

Thomas Charles Underhill

Stephen Thomas Wells

Shailesh Saini

Derek Martin Johnson

Gilberto Aristides Apodaca Aragon

Sushant Sharma

Lauren Michelle Janas

Aimee Leong

Jeffrey Chen

Stephanie L Horn

The present disclosure relates to management of presentation content including technical instances where presentation content interacts with live feeds. The scope of the present disclosure covers technical examples that pertain to creation/design of presentation content as well technical examples where presentation content is presented in real-time (or near real-time). Design solutions are provided enabling users to easily interject a representation of a live camera feed into presentation content. For example, an editable GUI object is presented enabling users to incorporate a representation of a live camera feed into slide-based presentation content. The present disclosure further provides processing that fosters dynamic management of presentation content including interactions with live camera feeds during a presentation. Furthermore, an improved GUI presents GUI elements and notifications to aid management of representations of live camera feeds relative to presentation content. Live camera feeds can be dynamically added within a slide-based presentation during real-time presentation.

Management of presentation content including interjecting live feeds into presentation content

Aspects of the present disclosure provide for determining user input of a presentation. Specifically, aspects disclosed herein provide differentiating between interacting with selectable objects within a slide and scrolling between slides, editing a selectable object within a slide, scrolling between slides, viewing off slide content, zooming out from a slide view, and zooming in to a slide view.

Merged experience of reading and editing with seamless transition

Representative embodiments disclose mechanisms to create a distance field within a Graphics Processing Unit. This allows distance fields to be used in real time environments rather than having to be pre-calculated offline. Distance fields can be stored in a channel of a texture. To calculate the distance field, information that describes a shape are evaluated and shape segments that define the shape are created. A bounding box is created for each segment. For each pixel in each bounding box, the distance to the segment is calculated to create segment distance fields. For segments modeled with straight lines and quadratic segments, closed form solutions that can be implemented in the GPU are used. The individual segment distance fields are combined to form an overall shape distance field. A signed distance field is created by determining the inside and outside of the shape and adjusting distance field values appropriately.

GPU calculation of signed distance fields

A three-dimensional model can be presented in a two-dimensional digital canvas on a computer display. User input directed at the three-dimensional model in the two-dimensional canvas can be received. The three-dimensional model can be manipulated in response to the user input. A two-dimensional view of the three-dimensional model can be displayed. Corresponding data structures for the model, the canvas, and the two-dimensional objects in the data structure can be maintained and updated. One or more additional techniques can also be utilized in a computer system, such as continuous user-controlled model rotation in a two-dimensional canvas; viewport autofit and non-autofit modes; rotating the model around a camera look-at point; ghosting outside the viewport; normalizing modeling units and values; preset buttons with on-button previews; user-defined view presets; and/or two-dimensional image substitution.

Three-dimensional digital models in two-dimensional digital canvases

Three-dimensional digital modeling with two-dimensional canvas

Three-dimensional model look-at-point rotation and viewport modes

An animation preset graphical user interface (GUI) enables users to select a 3D model of an object and to further select between multiple animation presets that each individually cause a 3D animation engine to apply combinations of animation features against the 3D model. An exemplary animation preset may cause the object to translate across a display area (e.g., move from left to right across screen) while simultaneously rotating against a rotational axis (e.g., spinning so that different surfaces of the object become more prominent). The animation preset GUI may enable the user to dynamically toggle through different intensity levels to cause a selected animation preset to be rendered in accordance with different acceleration parameters and/or magnitude parameters. The animation preset GUI may enable the user to dynamically toggle between predefined animation spaces for animating the object. Animation-parameters may be persisted to a file to enable future editing of the animations.

Animating three-dimensional models using preset combinations of animation features

System and method for applying presentation templates with image animation to presentation documents. A processor identifies a presentation document including an image and identifies a characteristic of the image. The processor further selects a presentation template with image animation from a plurality of available presentation templates. The selection of the processor is based on the characteristic of the image. The processor further applies the presentation template with animation of the image to the presentation document to define animation of the image. The processor then outputs the presentation document with the presentation template applied.

Image animation in a presentation document

Object editing controls may be provided. First, a selection of an object within an electronic document may be received. Then, in response to the received selection of the object, at least one selectable control may be displayed. The at least one selectable control may be configured to provide a set of most commonly used editing controls for editing the selected object. Upon selection of the at least one selectable control, a user interface comprising the set of most commonly used editing controls may be deployed next to the selected object.

Providing contextual on-object control launchers and controls

Systems and methods are provided for displaying and presenting content. When presenting content in real time, contextual-zoom-focus and/or dynamic-zoom-focus may be placed on selected portions of the content. For example, the content may be zoomed and the selected portions of content may be repositioned to a central area of a display. Additionally, context may be maintained for the selected portions of content by at least partially displaying nearby content. In some cases, portions of content may be displayed in a progressive manner along a selected display path. Accordingly, context for the portions of content may be maintained along the display path. In some cases, placing contextual-zoom-focus and/or dynamic-zoom-focus on portions of content may be animated and the portions of content may perceptively zoom and glide into focus.

Content display with dynamic zoom focus

A method is presented for displaying a rendered image on an electronic computing device. The method comprises rendering a first image on the electronic computing device. The first image is rendered on a white background. A second image is rendered on the electronic computing device. The second image is rendered on a black background. The first image, the second image and a background image are combined to produce a third image. The third image is a composite of the first image, the second image and the background image. The third image is displayed on a display screen of the electronic computing device. The third image includes anti-aliasing for a plurality of subpixels of the third image.

Subpixel compositing on transparent backgrounds

Techniques are provided for forming one or more animation sequences used in animating a graphic. A semantic model of one or more semantic elements corresponding to content data is received. A presentation model of one or more presentation elements corresponding to objects is received. A set of one or more mappings is determined. The set of one or more mappings includes a mapping of each of said semantic elements to one or more presentation elements. The set of one or more mappings are traversed in an ordering in accordance with a selected animation sequence type specifying a set of objects that animate together. One or more animation sequences are built when performing the traversing step using each of the one or more mappings by applying one or more rules in accordance with a particular classification associated with each of the one or more mappings.

Techniques for automated animation

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