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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Dan Osborn, Woodinville, WA (US);
Shawn Crispin Wright, Sammamish, WA (US);
Anatolie Gavriliuc, Kirkland, WA (US);
Marc Brinkley, Woodinville, WA (US);
Albert Robles, Redmond, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method for operating a head-mounted computing device that includes displaying an image of an environment on a display of the head-mounted computing device and identifying a surface within the image that is eligible for color fill operation, based on similarities in color parameters of contiguous pixels in the captured image. The method further includes displaying an indicator prompting user input regarding color fill, receiving a color fill request via user input, the request being for a predetermined color, and performing a color fill operation on the identified surface in response to receiving the color fill request by (a) generating a fill image having the predetermined color and a shape that conforms to the shape of the identified surface, and (b) displaying the fill image in a world-locked manner so as to overlay the identified surface even when a perspective of the display changes.