Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Sasa Junuzovic

Zhengyou Zhang

Andrew David Wilson

Anoop Gupta

John C Tang

William Thomas Blank

Rajesh Hegde

Steven Nabil Bathiche

Zicheng Liu

Michel Pahud

Kori Inkpen Quinn

Kori M Inkpen

Eyal Ofek

Philip Andrew Chou

Cha Zhang

Abigail Jane Sellen

William Arthur Stewart Buxton

Edward Sean Lloyd Rintel

Bruce Arnold Cleary, Iii

Christopher Brooks

Alastair Wolman

Nathalie Henry Riche

Christophe Hurter

Yinpeng Chen

Aaron C Hoff

Paramvir Bahl

Michael Jack Sinclair

Steven Mark Drucker

Hrvoje Benko

Yong Rui

Johnson T Apacible

Andreas Georg Nowatzyk

Dinei A Florencio

Li-wei He

Gina Danielle Venolia

Barry Clayton Bond

David Alexander Molnar

Gavin Jancke

Dinei Afonso Ferreira Florencio

Prasun Dewan

Yoichi Ochiai

Payod Panda

David William Brown

Rajesh Hedge

Nathalie Maryline Riche

Seungwon Kim

Kunal Gupta

Andriana Boudouraki

Lev Tankelevitch

Ozumcan Demir Caliskan

Bo Kang

Dieni Afonso Ferreira Florencio

A computer-implemented method is described which comprises generating a representation of a digital space and a representation of the physical space using an audiovisual feed received from a camera proximate to a display located in the physical space. The representation of the digital space is generated using user information identifying a remote user associated with the display and presence information relating to the remote user and the digital representation comprises an avatar of the remote user. The representation of the digital space is output to the display located in the physical space and the representation of the physical space it output to a computing device associated with the remote user. The method further comprises dynamically updating the representation of the digital space and/or physical space in response to changes in the user information and presence information.

Collaborative system

Aspects of this present disclosure relate to hybrid conference user interface. The hybrid conference interface provides an establishing shot before the meeting begins that places meeting attendees in a specific spatial arrangement, such as in specific seats around a conference table. Upon starting the conference, the hybrid user interface renders an appropriate perspective view of the meeting that is tailored to each attendee's perspective while also being spatially consistent for the entire group of attendees. Allowing attendees to place themselves where they want gives attendees a sense of physical space that helps them stay spatially oriented relative to the other people and resources in the room.

Established perspective user interface and user experience for video meetings

The interactive and shared surface technique described herein employs hardware that can project on any surface, capture color video of that surface, and get depth information of and above the surface while preventing visual feedback (also known as video feedback, video echo, or visual echo). The technique provides N-way sharing of a surface using video compositing. It also provides for automatic calibration of hardware components, including calibration of any projector, RGB camera, depth camera and any microphones employed by the technique. The technique provides object manipulation with physical, visual, audio, and hover gestures and interaction between digital objects displayed on the surface and physical objects placed on or above the surface. It can capture and scan the surface in a manner that captures or scans exactly what the user sees, which includes both local and remote objects, drawings, annotations, hands, and so forth.

Interactive and shared surfaces

A 'Concurrent Projector-Camera' uses an image projection device in combination with one or more cameras to enable various techniques that provide visually flicker-free projection of images or video, while real-time image or video capture is occurring in that same space. The Concurrent Projector-Camera provides this projection in a manner that eliminates video feedback into the real-time image or video capture. More specifically, the Concurrent Projector-Camera dynamically synchronizes a combination of projector lighting (or light-control points) on-state temporal compression in combination with on-state temporal shifting during each image frame projection to open a 'capture time slot' for image capture during which no image is being projected. This capture time slot represents a tradeoff between image capture time and decreased brightness of the projected image. Examples of image projection devices include LED-LCD based projection devices, DLP-based projection devices using LED or laser illumination in combination with micromirror arrays, etc.

Real-time mapping of projections onto moving 3D objects

Systems and methods for enabling user-interactions with virtual objects (VOs) included in immersive environments (IEs) are provided. A head-mounted display (HMD) device is communicatively coupled with a hover-sensing (HS) device, via a communication session. The HMD device provides an IE to a wearer by displaying a field-of-view (FOV) that includes a VO. The user executes user-interactions, such as 2D and/or 3D hand gestures, fingertip gestures, multi-fingertip gestures, stylus gestures, hover gestures, and the like. The HS device detects the user-interactions and generates interaction data. The interaction data is provided to the HMD device via the communication session. The HMD device updates the FOV and/or the VO based on the interaction data. A physical overlay that includes a 3D protrusion is coupled with the HS device. The overlay is transparent to the hover-sensing capabilities of the HS device. The protrusion provides tactile feedback to the user for the user-interactions.

Hover-based user-interactions with virtual objects within immersive environments

In some examples, a system senses the location of a stylus or finger of a user relative to a virtual displayed object to determine when a virtual touch occurs. Upon or after such a determination, the system may generate a haptic action that indicates to the user that the virtual touch occurred. The haptic action may be located on a particular portion of a haptic device, which may be a handheld device. The particular portion may correspond to the location where the virtual displayed object was virtually touched. In this way, the user may receive physical feedback associated with the virtual touch of the virtual displayed object. In some examples, the virtual displayed object may change in response to the virtual touch, thus further providing visual and physical feedback associated with the virtual touch of the virtual displayed object to the user.

Haptic feedback for non-touch surface interaction

Techniques for recording and replay of a live conference while still attending the live conference are described. A conferencing system includes a user interface generator, a live conference processing module, and a replay processing module. The user interface generator is configured to generate a user interface that includes a replay control panel and one or more output panels. The live conference processing module is configured to extract information included in received conferencing data that is associated with one or more conferencing modalities, and to display the information in the one or more output panels in a live manner (e.g., as a live conference). The replay processing module is configured to enable information associated with the one or more conferencing modalities corresponding to a time of the conference session prior to live to be presented at a desired rate, possibly different from the real-time rate.

Accelerated instant replay for co-present and distributed meetings

Aspects of the subject disclosure are directed towards providing contextual information (such as high resolution still images) during an audio or video call. A receiver of the contextual information may send commands to the sending device to specify a desired resolution and frame rate of such images. A receiving user also may determine how to display any video call frames and/or the contextual information on one or more display devices available to the receiving user. Other contextual information such as location-related data by which a user can determine and display a location of the other call participant (or participants) may be transmitted during the call.

Compositing and transmitting contextual information during an audio or video call

The large display interaction implementations described herein combine mobile devices with people tracking to enable new interactions including making a non-touch-sensitive display touch-sensitive and allowing personalized interactions with the display. One implementation tracks one or more mobile computing device users relative to a large computer-driven display, and configures content displayed on the display based on a distance a given mobile computing device user is from the display. Another implementation personalizes user interactions with a large display. One or more mobile computing device users are tracked relative to a display. The identity of each of the one or more mobile computing device users is obtained. Content displayed on the display is configured based on a distance an identified mobile computing device user is from the display and the identity of the user that provides the content.

Combining mobile devices with people tracking for large display interactions

An apparatus that automatically monitors a display device includes a photo sensor configured to receive light from a display screen of the display device. The photo sensor provides signals representing detected light levels to a processor. The processor is coupled to the display device and is configured to cause the display device to present a test sequence including a plurality of images on the display screen. The processor is configured to capture data from the photo sensor during the presentation of the test sequence and to compare the captured data to an expected sequence corresponding to the test sequence displayed by a well-functioning display. The processor is further configured to report any mismatch between the captured data and the expected sequence as a possible malfunction of the display device.

Automated presentation equipment testing

A method includes obtaining data representing multiple characters, determining a code for each character wherein each code corresponds to a different audio frequency, and transmitting the codes at the corresponding audio frequencies.

Audio data transmission using frequency hopping

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