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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 27, 2018
Applicant:

Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ghulam Kirmani, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Andrea Colaco, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Luis Villaran, San Carlos, CA (US);

Chintan Trehan, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0346 (2013.01); H03K 19/177 (2006.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0346 (2013.01); G02B 27/017 (2013.01); G02B 27/0172 (2013.01); G06F 3/011 (2013.01); G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/0304 (2013.01); G06F 3/0325 (2013.01); H03K 19/17728 (2013.01); G08C 2201/32 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques of tracking a hand controller in a VR system involves detecting, by photodiodes in the hand controller, patterns of diffuse radiation generated by diffuse LEDs in the HMD. Such techniques can also include comparing the detected patterns to those simulated offline previously and represented in a lookup table (LUT). By looking up the detected patterns in the LUT, the VR system may determine the position and/or orientation of the hand controller with sub-millimeter accuracy. Some advantages of the improved techniques can be in the simplicity and/or low cost of the components without sacrificing accuracy in deriving the position and orientation of the hand controller.


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