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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2009
Steve Mason, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ammon Haggerty, Oakland, CA (US);
Michael Harville, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Niklas Lundback, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nikolai Cornell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Steve Mason, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ammon Haggerty, Oakland, CA (US);
Michael Harville, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Niklas Lundback, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nikolai Cornell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Obscura Digital, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A large scale multi-user, multi-touch system with a specialized zone-based user interface including methods for space management and spatial apportioning of audio cues. The system comprises a multi-touch display component fabricated in dimensions sufficient for at least a plurality of users and for displaying projected images and for receiving multi-touch input. The apparatus includes a plurality of image projectors, a plurality of cameras for sensing multi-touch input and the apparatus includes interface software for managing user space. The interface software implements techniques for managing multiple users using the same user interface component by allocating physical spaces within the multi-touch display component and coordinating movement of displayed objects between the physical spaces. Embodiments include a plurality of audio transducers and methods for performing audio spatialization using the plurality of audio transducers corresponding to the physical spaces, apportioning of volume levels to the audio transducers based on movement of a displayed object.