Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Oscar E Murillo

Aaron Naoyoshi Sheung Yan Woo

Matthew Hartman

Janis Buesching

Mark D Schwesinger

Janet Ellen Galore

Emily Yang

Luke Robert Haddock

Desney S Tan

George G Robertson

Brian R Meyers

Roland Lucas Fernandez

Nuria M Oliver

Steven William Macbeth

Christian Klein

Alex A Kipman

Jay P Kapur

Richard S Bailey

Colleen G Estrada

David Mowatt

Jonathan C Cluts

Michael Koenig

Oliver Scholz

David Bastien

Mary P Czerwinski

Robert L Chambers

Subha Bhattacharyay

Jack Creasey

Rebecca Haruyama

Elin R Pedersen

Andy D Wilson

Vijay Mital

Darryl Ellis Rubin

Daniel B Cook

Sergio Paolantonio

Adam M Smith

Amy Kathleen Karlson

Ryan T Bickel

Jason Ryan Farmer

Vikram Padmakar Bapat

Jordan Dale Andersen

Purnima M Rao

Kristoffer S Schultz

Stuart John Mayhew

Roger Ibars Martinez

Carlos Fernando Faria Costa

Shih-Sang Carnaven Chiu

Jean-Louis Villecroze

Nema Rao

Tim Franklin

Andrew David Wilson

Kenneth Paul Hinckley

Galen Clyde Hunt

Gary William Flake

James William Scott

Jason Garms

Michel Pahud

Julia Schwarz

Lisa Joy Stifelman

Raman Kumar Sarin

Brett David Brewer

Karim Taji Farouki

Barry Clayton Bond

Andrew W Jacobs

Ali M Vassigh

Charles Claudius Marais

Shane Jeremy Landry

Sven Pleyer

Flora P Goldthwaite

Eric I-Chao Chang

Benjamin B Bederson

Kelly Rose McArthur

Benjamin Vanik

Alice Jane Brush

Jeanine E Spence

Scott Petill

Addison Kenan Linville

Stefanie Lyn Tomko

Annika Rodrigues

Dylan Edmund Pierpont

Melissa Hellmund Vega

John Henson

Stephen Speicher

Kevin J Endres

Abhiram G Khune

Mike Glass

Craig A Fox

Tyrone Samson

William H Robbins

Fang-Yu Yang

Cheryl Nicole Platz

David A Walker

Craig Fox

Eduardo Escardo Raffo

Matthew H Ahn

Ira Lynn Snyder, Jr

Mauro Giusti

William Hunter Jennings

Matthew Anson Hartman

Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to an XR messaging system that can conduct a message thread between multiple users, where individual messages can be designated for delivery to particular artificial reality locations or devices. When sending a message, a user can choose to send the message to a particular destination associated with one or more other users on the message thread. When such a destination selection is made, the message can be formatted for viewing at the selected destination by applying a template, to the message, selected based on the template being configured for the types of data defined in the message and for the type of the destination.

Artificial reality messaging with destination selection

A method of and system for visualizing a sound source is disclosed. The method may include analyzing an audio signal received by a sound transducer to determine a positional direction of the sound source, determining whether the positional direction of the sound source falls outside a field of view of a user, and in response to determining that the positional direction of the sound source falls outside the field of view of the user, rendering on a display unit a visual representation of the sound source. The visual representation of the source is rendered on a virtual surface at a location within the field of view of the user, the location corresponding to at least one of a distance of the source from the user and a positional direction of the source with respect to the user.

Localization and visualization of sound

An augmented reality device comprising a camera, an augmented reality display, and a controller. The augmented reality display is configured to display the real-world environment and one or more virtual augmentations. The controller is configured to measure, via determination of hue, a color profile for a displayed portion of the real-world environment visible via the augmented reality display and imaged via the camera. A complementary palette of user interface colors is selected, each of such user interface colors having at least a predefined difference in hue relative to one or more colors in the color profile. An augmented reality feature is visually presented via the augmented reality display at a render location and with a render color from the complementary palette of user interface colors, the render color having at least the predefined difference in hue relative to a real-world environment color corresponding to the render location.

Adaptive user interface palette for augmented reality

Embodiments related to dynamically adjusting a user interface based upon depth information are disclosed. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a method including receiving depth information of a physical space from a depth camera, locating a user within the physical space from the depth information, determining a distance between the user and a display device from the depth information, and adjusting one or more features of a user interface displayed on the display device based on the distance.

Dynamic adjustment of user interface

Concepts and technologies are described herein for interacting with contextual and task-focused computing environments. Tasks associated with applications are described by task data. Tasks and/or batches of tasks relevant to activities occurring at a client are identified, and a UI for presenting the tasks is generated. The UIs can include tasks and workflows corresponding to batches of tasks. Workflows can be executed, interrupted, and resumed on demand. Interrupted workflows are stored with data indicating progress, contextual information, UI information, and other information. The workflow is stored and/or shared. When execution of the workflow is resumed, the same or a different UI can be provided, based upon the device used to resume execution of the workflow. Thus, multiple devices and users can access workflows in parallel to provide collaborative task execution.

Interactions with contextual and task-based computing environments

The subject disclosure relates to user input into a computer system, and a technology by which one or more users interact with a computer system via a combination of input modalities. When the input data of two or more input modalities are related, they are combined to interpret an intended meaning of the input. For example, speech when combined with one input gesture has one intended meaning, e.g., convert the speech to verbatim text for consumption by a program, while the exact speech when combined with a different input gesture has a different meaning, e.g., convert the speech to a command that controls the operation of that same program.

Multimodal input system

The subject disclosure is directed towards a web service that maintains a set of models used to generate plans, such as vacation plans, in which the set of models includes models that are authored by crowd contributors via the service. The models include rules, constraints and/or equations, and may be text based and declarative such that any author can edit an existing model or combination of existing models into a new model. Users can access the models to generate a plan according to user parameters, view a presentation of that plan, and interact to provide new parameters to the model and/or with objects in the plan to modify the plan and view a presentation of the modified plan.

Addition of plan-generation models and expertise by crowd contributors

A mixed-reality display device comprises an input system, a display, and a graphics processor. The input system is configured to receive a parameter value, the parameter value being one of a plurality of values of a predetermined range receivable by the input system. The display is configured to display virtual image content that adds an augmentation to a real-world environment viewed by a user of the mixed-reality display device. The graphics processor is coupled operatively to the input system and to the display; it is configured to render the virtual image content so as to variably change the augmentation, to variably change a perceived realism of the real world environment in correlation to the parameter value.

Reality mixer for mixed reality

A virtual reality headset system having a region configured to change its opacity is disclosed. The virtual reality headset system is configured to provide an immersive experience, but also to allow a user to see at least some portion of the outside world, at least some of the time. The headset has a casing that partially surrounds a display. The casing has an opening configured to receive the user's face. The casing has a region between the display and the user's face configured to change a degree of opacity. The region may be a window located in a non-front facing or lateral side of the casing.

Virtual reality headset

Techniques for creating breadcrumbs for a trail of activity are described. The trail of activity may be created by recording movement information based on inferred actions of walking, not walking, or changing floor levels. The movement information may be recorded with an accelerometer and a pressure sensor. A representation of a list of breadcrumbs may be visually displayed on a user interface of a mobile device, in a reverse order to retrace steps. In some implementations, a compass may additionally or alternatively be used to collect directional information relative to the earth's magnetic poles.

Retracing steps

Techniques for assigning a gesture dictionary in a gesture-based system to a user comprise capturing data representative of a user in a physical space. In a gesture-based system, gestures may control aspects of a computing environment or application, where the gestures may be derived from a user's position or movement in a physical space. In an example embodiment, the system may monitor a user's gestures and select a particular gesture dictionary in response to the manner in which the user performs the gestures. The gesture dictionary may be assigned in real time with respect to the capture of the data representative of a user's gesture. The system may generate calibration tests for assigning a gesture dictionary. The system may track the user during a set of short gesture calibration tests and assign the gesture dictionary based on a compilation of the data captured that represents the user's gestures.

Assigning gesture dictionaries

Various embodiments enable mobile devices, such as phones and the like, to integrate with an in-vehicle information/entertainment system to enable the user to control the in-vehicle information/entertainment system by way of their mobile phone. Users can leverage the functionality of their mobile phone to promote an in-vehicle experience which can be contextually tailored to the user's or the vehicle's context. Yet other embodiments can purvey an in-vehicle experience through a cloud based service.

Vehicle-based multi-modal interface

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Redmond, WA, United States of America

Oscar E Murillo