Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

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Varun Ramesh Mani

Benjamin N Truelove

Benjamin Salim Srour

Scott E Dart

Christopher Douglas Edmonds

Daniel Joseph McCulloch

Arthur Charles Tomlin

Adam G Poulos

Jeffrey Alan Kohler

Anthony James Ambrus

Nicholas Fajt

Michael Edward Samples

Lev Cherkashin

Constantin Dulu

Michael Grabner

Oded Yehuda Shekel

James Dack

Eric Scott Rehmeyer

Sara Liu Yang

MerryJane M Fosdick

Joerg Christof Zender

Andrew James Koltz

Brent Charles Allen

Muhammad Jabir Kapasi

Edward Daniel Parker

Umar Arshad

Sara Remsen

Cecilia Bong

Miguel Angel Susffalich

Haohui Yin

Swagat Dasgupta

Antonia C Blume

Elena Alina Angelescu

Joerg C Zender

Merryjane M Fosdick

An augmented reality, mixed reality or virtual reality device is used to create occupational knowledge documentation, such as instruction and/or repair documentation for industrial equipment or processes. The device can be configured to capture time-synchronized data during a session in which an expert person, wearing or holding the device, performs a task to be documented. The data can include, for example, video data captured by a camera, audio data captured by a microphone within audio proximity of the camera, motion data captured by an inertial measurement unit physically fixed relative to the camera, and spatial data relating to locations of at least one of the plurality of objects within the field of view of the camera, wherein the spatial data is generated by one or more spatial sensors. The captured data can be automatically processed and used to render instruction on an augmented reality, mixed reality or virtual reality device.

Augmented reality-based capture, processing and transfer of occupational knowledge

In embodiments of a camera-based input device, the input device includes an inertial measurement unit that collects motion data associated with velocity and acceleration of the input device in an environment, such as in three-dimensional (3D) space. The input device also includes at least two visual light cameras that capture images of the environment. A positioning application is implemented to receive the motion data from the inertial measurement unit, and receive the images of the environment from the at least two visual light cameras. The positioning application can then determine positions of the input device based on the motion data and the images correlated with a map of the environment, and track a motion of the input device in the environment based on the determined positions of the input device.

Position-determining input device

Metered network synchronization techniques are described. A current network connection of a computing device is checked as to whether the current network connection has been identified as a metered network. Access by a synchronization engine of the computing device to communicate via the current network connection to synchronize data of the computing device with another computing device is managed based at least in part on a setting associated with the metered network.

Metered network synchronization

A user of a device has an account with a service that stores copies of common data that is automatically made available to any of the user's devices and also stores copies of device-specific data that is available to the user on particular user-selected devices but is not automatically made available to all of the user's devices. A set of backed up devices can be displayed to the user of a particular device with various information describing the devices to facilitate user selection of a device, such as a visual representation of the type of the device that was backed up, a visual representation of a desktop or start screen display of the device that was backed up, and so forth. The user can select one of the displayed devices, and in response have the backed up device-specific data for the selected device copied to the particular device.

Service-based backup data restoring to devices

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Varun Ramesh Mani