Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

John Alexander McElmurray

Richard Carl Roesler

Karim Benchemsi

Gustaf Georg Pettersson

Chuan Xia

A mixed reality system including a display and camera is configured to receive video of a physical scene from the camera and construct a 3D model of the physical scene based on the video. Spatial sensing provides pose (position and orientation) updates corresponding to a physical pose of the display. First user inputs allow a user to define an input path. The input path may be displayed as a graphic path or line. The input path is mapped to a 3D path in the 3D model. Second user inputs define animation features in association with the 3D path. Animation features include an object (e.g., a character), animation commands, etc. The animation commands may be manually mapped to points on the 3D path and executed during an animation of the object guided by the 3D path.

Mixed reality animation

Technologies related to generating mixed reality video are described herein. Video frames capture a human, and positions of skeletal features of the human are estimated based solely upon the video frames. A mixed reality video is generated, wherein the mixed reality video includes the video combined with an animation, wherein the animation is based upon movement of the human in the video as represented by the estimated positions of the skeletal features of the human.

Creating a mixed-reality video based upon tracked skeletal features

Technologies are described in conjunction with automatic grouping based handling of similar photos. According to some examples, similar photos may be grouped as a group of people or person's image taken within a short time frame. Grouping of the photos may be based on a difference metric comparing facial features, background composition, and color composition. Among the group of photos, a representative image may be selected based on a quality threshold and displayed representing the entire group. Visual aids such as icons, text, and other elements may be used to indicate information associated with the grouped photos. Context based menus may be presented to allow users to select and handle the entire group or photos within the group seamlessly as the user handles other images within a photo viewing/handling user interface.

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