Adobe, Inc.

Tenell Glen Rhodes, Jr

Gavin Stuart Peter Miller

Jose Ignacio Echevarria Vallespi

Li-Yi Wei

Qi Sun

Gavin Miller

An augmented reality display alternates between displaying color frames and alpha frames to generate composite images for transparency control. A display processor includes two sets of buffers, each set including a color frame buffer and an alpha frame buffer. One set of buffers is used to provide data to the display while new video data is being written into the other set of buffers. The display processor switches which set of buffers is providing data and which set of buffers is having new video data written into them. By switching the alpha and color frame buffers in sets, a pair of color frame buffer and alpha frame buffer are always the current set of buffers to provide data as the output. If a frame drop occurs and the next color frame or alpha frame is not ready, the set of buffers is not switched to avoid disturbing flashing visual artifacts.

Controlling an augmented reality display with transparency control using multiple sets of video buffers

An augmented reality (AR) mirror system is described. In an example, the AR mirror system includes a sensor, a display device, a semi-reflecting surface, a processing system, and computer-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon. The instructions are executable by the processing system to cause display of augmented reality (AR) digital content by the display device to be simultaneously viewable with a reflection of a physical object.

Augmented reality mirror system

Systems and techniques are disclosed that use an image capture device to capture images of an object under specified image capture conditions for use in determining reflectance properties of the object. Images of the object are captured from a variety of different camera directions and with the object illuminated from a variety of different light directions. To capture these images, a camera of the image capture device is moved relative to the object and lights of the device are selectively illuminated. The image capture device has various features that increase the variety and number of different image capture conditions that can be captured. For example, using planar arrays of individually addressable lights in the image capture device allows tens, hundreds, or even thousands of lights to be used. Using planar arrays of lights provides light from many different directions without adding substantial complexity or cost to the device.

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Tenell Glen Rhodes, Jr