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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2018
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Sathyanarayanan Karivaradaswamy, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system for camera device discovery and enumeration detects a camera device connected to a computing device using a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol and generates a device object corresponding to the detected camera device with a user-mode camera driver. The user-mode camera driver associated with an operating system executing on the computing device. The system registers the generated device object with the operating system to provide a direct interface from the operating system to the camera device and to make the camera device available to a plurality of applications executing on the computing device and commands the camera device from at least one of the plurality of applications via the registered device object through the operating system, thereby improving the functioning of the computing device and the user experience.