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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2013
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Brian E. Keane, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ben J. Sugden, Woodinville, WA (US);
Robert L. Crocco, Jr., Seattle, WA (US);
Daniel Deptford, Redmond, WA (US);
Tom G. Salter, Seattle, WA (US);
Laura K. Massey, Redmond, WA (US);
Alex Aben-Athar Kipman, Redmond, WA (US);
Peter Tobias Kinnebrew, Seattle, WA (US);
Nicholas Ferianc Kamuda, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A head mounted display allows user selection of a virtual object through multi-step focusing by the user. Focus on the selectable object is determined and then a validation object is displayed. When user focus moves to the validation object, a timeout determines that a selection of the validation object, and thus the selectable object has occurred. The technology can be used in see through head mounted displays to allow a user to effectively navigate an environment with a multitude of virtual objects without unintended selections.