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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2018
Google Technology Holdings Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Baback Elmieh, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Brian M. Collins, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Jan J. Pinkava, Portland, OR (US);
Douglas Paul Sweetland, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Google Technology Holdings LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for providing an interactive media content with explorable content on a computing device that includes rendering a field of view within a navigable media content item; rendering at least one targetable object within the media content item; through a user input mechanism, receiving a navigation command; navigating the field of view within the media based at least in part on the received user input mechanism; detecting a locking condition based, at least in part, on of the targetable object being in the field of view and entering a object-locked mode with the targetable object; and in the object-locked mode, automatically navigating the field of view to substantially track the targetable object of the object-locked mode.