Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

Joseph Wheeler

Tyler Paul Esselstrom

Aron Richard Chavez

Craig R Maitlen

Yi-An Chien

Kenneth Alan Lobb

Jason Dean Giles

Jeff Fleischmann

Theodore Aaron Haberman

Christopher Michael Novak

John Edward Churchill

David E Gardner

Xiaoji Chen

Nathan Johnson

Christian Klein

Anthony J Giardini

Nicholas Robinson

Thomas Fuller

Robert Mitchell Smith

Joann Marie Maisonet

Nando Costa

Giancarlo Lari

Mark D Schwesinger

John Snavely

Sergio Paolantonio

Mitchell Johnson

Benjamin L Perry

Rita Yu

Eric Sanderson

Brian Ralphs

Emily Yang

Peter M Wiest

Devin L Brown

Ryan Phillips

Emmanuel Reyes

Telmen Gerel Dzjind

Chase R Meusel

Jérôme Jean-Louis Vasseur

Jurgen Brenkert

Calvin Kent Carter

Thomas M Soemo

Sean E Kollenkark

Mengyuan Tu

Dennis Mooney, Ii

Robert H Smith

Quinn Damerell

Jerome Jean-Louis Vasseur

Lynnette Reed

Leo Soong

Randy Huynh

Ruth Anne Zschoche

Victoria N Podmajersky

Tyler P Esselstrom

Craig Ray Maitlen

Tyler Esselstrom

Dennis Ii Mooney

Display screen with icon group and display screen with icon set

Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for sharing user interface (UI) customization across applications. Application developers may create UIs (e.g., game control layouts) with control groups that may be customizable as a group. A control group may comprise a plurality of controls selectively assigned to cluster of sockets (e.g., a socket group) in a layout template. Controls in control groups may be customized as a group, for example, by changing a position, rotation and/or scale of a control group. Users can customize controls for comfort, switch controls for right and left-handed play and share customized preferences across applications. UI customization may be shared across applications with different UIs. For example, customization of one or more control groups in a first UI may be applied to one or more control groups in other UIs for other applications. Users may avoid tedious, time-consuming individual control changes for many UIs.

Sharing user interface customization across applications

The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating a convenient transfer of control elements for a gaming session from one device to another device without interrupting the gaming session for one or more players. For example, systems disclosed herein include pairing an input device (e.g., a gaming controller) with one or more client devices. Once paired, the input device may detect a trigger condition based on proximity of a registered client device to the input device. The client device may pull control of one or more control elements for the gaming session. The client device may then continue the gaming session without interrupting the experience for the user or for other users that may be engaged within the gaming session.

Transferring control elements for a gaming session between devices

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A display mount for connecting electronic devices includes a body, a display support, and a movable arm connected to the body and the display support. The body has a lower surface and an upper surface. The body further includes a controller connection mechanism. The arm is positioned above the upper surface to hold the display support above the body and opposite the lower surface.

Balanced game controller clip

The described technology includes a depth ray shader stored in memory and executable to receive a depth map defining a depth in association with each pixel in a three-dimensional scene and define a color gradient between a first pixel value and a second pixel value, wherein each sequential step in the color gradient between the first pixel value and the second pixel is assigned to a corresponding depth of increasing magnitude relative to a reference point. The depth ray shader is further executable to provide an instruction to a graphics engine to cause the graphics engine to apply a depth ray layer to a select portion of the three-dimensional scene, the depth ray layer altering each pixel in the selected portion to assume a pixel value defined within the color gradient to correspond to a depth of the pixel specified by the depth map.

Depth ray layer for reduced visual noise

A system is configured to implement a graphical overlay in a streaming game based on a current game state. Game data generated by a video game is received including game video in the form of a video stream containing game video frames. The game video is displayed on a display screen of a computing device to represent the video game to a user playing the video game at the computing device. At least one feature of the video game is identified at least in the game data. A user interface (UI) control configuration associated with the identified at least one feature is selected from among a plurality of UI control configurations for the video game and a graphical overlay corresponding to the selected UI control configuration is implemented on the video game in the display screen.

Implementing a graphical overlay for a streaming game based on current game scenario

Display screen with animated graphical user interface

Display screen with graphical user interface

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Joseph Wheeler