Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Anatolie Gavriliuc

Robert Thomas Held

Dan Osborn

Andrew Frederick Muehlhausen

Riccardo Giraldi

Shawn Crispin Wright

Sergio Paolantonio

Maxime Ouellet

Semih Energin

Stephen Michael Heijster

Stephen G Latta

Kathleen Patricia Mulcahy

Kevin James MacKenzie

Michelle Chua

Forest Woodcroft Gouin

Megan Saunders

Michelle Tze Hiang Chua

Eric Scott Rehmeyer

Daniel Lee Osborn

Albert Robles

Patrick C Ryan

David Anthony Evans

Hongwu Huai

Jason A Carter

Joseph Van Den Heuvel

Marc Brinkley

Scott Anderson Nagy

Daniel Joseph McCulloch

Adam G Poulos

Jeffrey Alan Kohler

Scott Fullam

Anthony James Ambrus

Szymon Piotr Stachniak

Aaron Michael Butcher

Christian Michael Sadak

Wei Zhang

Quentin Simon Charles Miller

Michael Edward Samples

Scott Robert Ramsby

Gregory Alt

Todd Omotani

Tarek Hefny

Seung-Yup Chai

Joe Thompson

Ken M Sadahiro

Richard Wifall

Alberto Cerriteno

James Nakashima

Jerin R Schneider

Nandini Bhattacharya

Jesse Rapczak

Philippe Favre

Kofi S Opoku

John D Malatras

Nicolas A Champagne-Williamson

Kangsan Lee

David Evans

Richard J Wifall

Todd Alan Omotani

Alberto E Cerriteno

Kevin J Mackenzie

Methods, systems, and computer program products are described herein for unsupervised clustering of browser history using web navigational activities. For example, correlation scores are calculated that indicate correlations between web pages indicated in a browsing history of a user. Moreover, the correlation scores are calculated based on web navigational activities determined from the browsing history. In addition, the web pages are clustered into a plurality of clusters based on the correlation scores and the clusters are ranked for relevancy to the user based on a relevancy algorithm. The relevancy algorithm determines a likelihood that a user will access a corresponding web page for each web page of a cluster. A cluster having a greatest ranking is identified and an indication of a web page of the identified cluster as a suggested web page to revisit is provided to a user.

Unsupervised clustering of browser history using web navigational activities

Stereoscopic display technologies are provided. A computing device generates a stereoscopic display of an object by coordinating a first image and a second image. To reduce discomfort or to reduce diplopic content, the computing device may adjust at least one display property of the first image and/or the second image depending on one or more factors. The factors may include a time period associated with the display of the object, the vergence distance to the object, the distance to the focal plane of the display, contextual data interpreted from the images and/or any combination of these and other factors. Adjustments to the display properties can include a modification of one or more contrast properties and/or other modifications to the images. The adjustment to the display properties may be applied with varying levels of intensity and/or be applied at different times depending on one or more factors and/or contextual information.

Stereoscopic display of objects

One example provides, on a computing device comprising a display, a method of initiating and conducting voice communication with a contact. The method comprises displaying a user interface on the display, receiving a user input of a position signal for the user interface, and determining that the position signal satisfies a selection condition for a contact based on a location of the position signal on the user interface and a position of a proxy view of the contact on the user interface. The method further comprises, in response to determining that the position signal satisfies the selection condition, selecting the contact for communication, receiving voice input, and responsive to receiving the voice input while the contact is selected for communication, opening a voice communication channel with the contact and sending the voice input to the contact via the voice communication channel.

Establishing voice communication channel

The present disclosure provides approaches to facilitating virtual reality and cross-device experiences. In some implementations, an environmental snapshot is captured which includes an image of a virtual reality (VR) environment presented on a VR device and corresponding depth information of the VR environment. The image of the environmental snapshot is presented on a different device than the VR device. A user modification to content associated with the presented image is translated into the environmental snapshot based on the depth information. The environmental snapshot comprising the user modification is translated into the VR environment. The VR environment comprising the translated user modification is presented. The environmental snapshot may correspond to a personal space of a user and may be accessed by another user through a social networking interface or other user networking interface to cause the presentation of the image.

Virtual reality and cross-device experiences

A method for moving a virtual object includes displaying a virtual object and moving the virtual object based on a user input. Based on the user input attempting to move the virtual object in violation of an obstacle, displaying a collision indicator and an input indicator. The collision indicator is moved based on user input and movement constraints imposed by the obstacle. The input indicator is moved based on user input without movement constraints imposed by the obstacle.

Virtual object movement

Examples are disclosed herein that relate to calibrating a user's eye for a stereoscopic display. One example provides, on a head-mounted display device including a see-through display, a method of calibrating a stereoscopic display for a user's eyes, the method including for a first eye, receiving an indication of alignment of a user-controlled object with a first eye reference object viewable via the head-mounted display device from a perspective of the first eye, determining a first ray intersecting the user-controlled object and the first eye reference object from the perspective of the first eye, and determining a position of the first eye based on the first ray. The method further includes repeating such steps for a second eye, determining a position of the second eye based on a second ray, and calibrating the stereoscopic display based on the position of the first eye and the position of the second eye.

Calibrating a near-eye display

A technique is described herein for presenting notifications associated with applications in a context-based manner. In one implementation, the technique maintains a data store that provides application annotation information that describes a plurality of anchors. For instance, the application annotation information for an illustrative anchor identifies: a location at which the anchor is virtually placed in an interactive world; an application associated with the anchor; and triggering information that describes a set of one or more triggering conditions to be satisfied to enable presentation of a notification pertaining to the application. In use, the technique presents the notification pertaining to the application in prescribed proximity to the anchor when it is determined that the user's engagement with the interactive world satisfies the anchor's set of triggering conditions. The triggering conditions can specify any combination of spatial factors, temporal factors, user co-presence factors, etc.

Context-based discovery of applications

A method for operating a head-mounted computing device that includes displaying an image of an environment on a display of the head-mounted computing device and identifying a surface within the image that is eligible for color fill operation, based on similarities in color parameters of contiguous pixels in the captured image. The method further includes displaying an indicator prompting user input regarding color fill, receiving a color fill request via user input, the request being for a predetermined color, and performing a color fill operation on the identified surface in response to receiving the color fill request by (a) generating a fill image having the predetermined color and a shape that conforms to the shape of the identified surface, and (b) displaying the fill image in a world-locked manner so as to overlay the identified surface even when a perspective of the display changes.

Color fill in an augmented reality environment

In various embodiments, methods and systems for implementing integrated free space and surface inputs are provided. An integrated free space and surface input system includes a mixed-input pointing device for interacting and controlling interface objects using free space inputs and surface inputs, trigger buttons, pressure sensors, and haptic feedback associated with the mixed-input pointing device. Free space movement data and surface movement data are tracked and determined for the mixed-input pointing device. An interface input is detected for the mixed-input pointing device transitioning from a first input to a second input, such as, from a free space input to a surface input or from the surface input to the free space input. The interface input is processed based on accessing the free space movement data and the surface movement data. An output for the interface input is communicated from the mixed-input pointing device to interact and control an interface.

Integrated free space and surface input device

An augmented reality head-mounted device includes a gaze detector, a camera, and a communication interface. The gaze detector determines a gaze vector of an eye of a wearer of the augmented reality head-mounted device. The camera images a physical space including a display of a computing device. The communication interface sends a control signal to the computing device in response to a wearer input. The control signal indicates a location at which the gaze vector intersects the display and useable by the computing device to adjust operation of the computing device.

Augmented reality control of computing device

A method is disclosed that includes receiving an instruction to generate a virtual place-located anchor at a virtual location that is world-locked. Data items from a target data source are received. A subset of the data items is linked to the virtual place-located anchor. A first display device is caused to display virtual content of the subset of data items at the virtual place-located anchor. If a condition under which a second user is authorized to view the virtual content is satisfied, a second display device is caused to display the virtual content at the virtual place-located anchor.

Virtual place-located anchor

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Anatolie Gavriliuc