Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

William Paul Giese

Matthew Monson

Stephen G Latta

Kevin Geisner

Relja Markovic

Darren Bennett

Kudo Tsunoda

David Seymour

William Axel Olsen

Darrin Adam Brown

Matthew James Searcy

Chad Olsen

Rory Reich

Rhett Mathis

David Gierok

Cam McRae

Daniel J Greenawalt

Christian Guirguis

Depth-image analysis is performed with a device that analyzes a human target within an observed scene by capturing depth-images that include depth information from the observed scene. The human target is modeled with a virtual skeleton including a plurality of joints. The virtual skeleton is used as an input for controlling a driving simulation.

Driving simulator control with virtual skeleton

Various embodiments provide techniques for implementing speech recognition for context switching In at least some embodiments, the techniques can enable a user to switch between different contexts and/or user interfaces of an application via speech commands. In at least some embodiments, a context menu is provided that lists available contexts for an application that may be navigated to via speech commands. In implementations, the contexts presented in the context menu include a subset of a larger set of contexts that are filtered based on a variety of context filtering criteria. A user can speak one of the contexts presented in the context menu to cause a navigation to a user interface associated with one of the contexts.

Speech recognition for context switching

A processor implemented method, system and computer readable medium for performing transactions of user generated content in a centralized marketplace is provided. User generated content files usable in a game during gameplay are received from users to the centralized marketplace. A restriction on use of the user generated content files is applied. The user generated content files are presented within the centralized marketplace. A request to purchase a user generated content file in the centralized marketplace is received from a first user and a purchase transaction between the first user and a content owner of the user generated content file is completed.

Method and system for protecting game related content in a centralized marketplace

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William Paul Giese