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Lenovo (beijing) Limited

Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd.

Beijing Xiaoxiaoniu Creative Technologies Ltd

Xiang Cao

Xin Tong

John Helmes

Takaaki Shiratori

Yang Liu

Nobuyuki Umetani

Yupeng Zhang

Teng Han

Zhimin Ren

Shahram Izadi

Richard Malcolm Banks

Sergio Paolantonio

Abigail Jane Sellen

Hrvoje Benko

Dongmei Zhang

Nicolas Villar

Chen Zhao

Yingnong Dang

John C Tang

Asta Jane Roseway

Aaron C Hoff

Sian Elizabeth Lindley

Paul Johns

Xiumin Lin

Jennifer Marlow

Kenneth Paul Hinckley

Stephen Edward Hodges

Tommer Leyvand

David Alexander Butler

Guang Cheng Li

Jun Kato

Feng Xu

Daniel Allen Rosenfeld

Cheng Guo

Kori Inkpen Quinn

Kori M Inkpen

Jun Wei

Thomas Gersten

Sean C McDirmid

Minghui Sun

Jundong Xue

An intuitive interface may allow users of a computing device (e.g., children, etc.) to create imaginary three dimensional (3D) objects of any shape using body gestures performed by the users as a primary or only input. A user may make motions while in front of an imaging device that senses movement of the user. The interface may allow first-person and/or third person interaction during creation of objects, which may map a body of a user to a body of an object presented by a display. In an example process, the user may start by scanning an arbitrary body gesture into an initial shape of an object. Next, the user may perform various gestures using his body, which may result in various edits to the object. After the object is completed, the object may be animated, possibly based on movements of the user.

Object creation using body gestures

A method and a device for generating a three-dimensional virtual environment, wherein the method includes: acquiring a plane environment image captured by an image capturing device; extracting geometric information from the plane environment image to obtain geometric information of each two-dimensional element in the plane environment image; extracting content information from the plane environment image to obtain content information of each two-dimensional element in the plane environment image; respectively determining three-dimensional models corresponding to the two-dimensional elements according to the geometric information and the content information of each two-dimensional element; respectively rendering three-dimensional models corresponding to the two-dimensional elements at coordinates corresponding to the geometrical shape of each two-dimensional element and generating a three-dimensional virtual environment.

3D virtual environment generating method and device

A method incorporating real environment for virtuality and reality combined interaction includes: stepcapturing a frame of image in a real environment, and determining a movement state between a previous frame of image and a current image for at least one edge point in the image; stepfor each of virtual objects in the virtual content, detecting whether the edge point is existed on the periphery of the virtual object, and applying corresponding function on the virtual object according to the movement state of the edge point when the edge point is existed on the periphery of the virtual object; and stepdisplaying the virtual content and the real environment in a superimposed manner according to function effect of the edge point to the virtual object, and returning back to stepto proceed until interaction between virtuality and reality is end.

Method and system incorporating real environment for virtuality and reality combined interaction

The present disclosure provides an information processing method and an electronic device, capable of solving the problem with the conventional solution that the user may not activate the interaction interface conveniently without knowing the position of the triggering control. The method comprises: obtaining at least one sensed parameter of an operator using the sensing unit; determining a parameter change of the operator based on the at least one sensed parameter; judging, based on the parameter change, whether an input action of the operator satisfies a first predetermined condition, so as to obtain a first judgment result, the first predetermined condition being satisfied when the operator changes from a first attitude to a second attitude different from the first attitude; determining the input action of the operator as a first input action and determining a mapped position of the operator on the display unit based on the parameter change, when the first judgment result indicates that the input action satisfies the first predetermined condition; determining a first control instruction associated with the first input action; and displaying a first graphic interaction interface at the mapped position in response to the first control instruction.

Information processing method and electronic device

Embodiments described herein relate to enabling a lightweight way of recording and sharing video messages intended to provide input to a future meeting that cannot be personally attended. A person who cannot attend the meeting pre-records their thoughts and remarks for the meeting as video clips for presentation at the meeting. A physical device with at least a display is presented at the meeting. The physically present participants can play the pre-recorded clips on the device. Video of participants' responses to the clips is recorded and made available so that the represented attendee can view the participants' responses.

Proxy for asynchronous meeting participation

Techniques for obtaining a reaction of an individual to content and outputting the reaction of the individual with the content are described herein. The techniques may include obtaining the reaction of the individual as the content is displayed to the individual. The reaction may be obtained by capturing a video of the individual. The reaction of the individual and the content may be output at a same time to another individual. These techniques may also include obtaining the reaction of another individual as the content and the reaction of the individual are output to another individual.

Consumption of content with reactions of an individual

Some examples of a system for providing a visual based programming interface for developing camera-based applications may include a code editor interface, a timeline interface, a canvas interface and/or a program session interface. For instance, the code editor interface may allow a programmer to view and edit source code, the timeline interface may present application data associated with a program session in a frame by frame manner, the canvas interface may allow the programmer to view, interact with, arrange and/or annotate the application data in a visual format, and the program session interface may allow the programmer to choose application data to display in the timeline interface and the canvas interface by selecting between historical program sessions and live program sessions.

Programming interface

Indirect multi-touch interaction is described. In an embodiment, a user interface is controlled using a cursor and a touch region comprising a representation of one or more digits of a user. The cursor and the touch region are moved together in the user interface in accordance with data received from a cursor control device, such that the relative location of the touch region and the cursor is maintained. The representations of the digits of the user are moved in the touch region in accordance with data describing movement of the user's digits. In another embodiment, a user interface is controlled in a first mode of operation using an aggregate cursor, and switched to a second mode of operation in which the aggregate cursor is divided into separate portions, each of which can be independently controlled by the user.

Indirect multi-touch interaction

Users may communicate an idea asynchronously by including contextual information. The contextual information may be presented in multimodal annotations, suggestions of logical idea progression, and a chronological history of the project creation. The contextual information may include content captured from the real-world including from the user's immediate environment or elsewhere.

Techniques to facilitate asynchronous communication

An optical flow of depth video of a depth camera imaging a human subject is recognized. An energy field created by motion of the human subject is generated as a function of the optical flow and specified rules of a physical simulation of the virtual environment. The energy field is mapped to a virtual position in the virtual environment. A property of a virtual object in the virtual environment is adjusted based on a plurality of energy elements of the energy field in response to the virtual object interacting with the virtual position of the energy field.

Motion control of a virtual environment

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