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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2013
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Alan M. Dunn, Austin, TX (US);
Tadayoshi Kohno, Seattle, WA (US);
David A. Molnar, Seattle, WA (US);
Alexander N. Moshchuk, Kirkland, WA (US);
Franziska Roesner, Seattle, WA (US);
Jiahe Helen Wang, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A shared renderer maintains shared state information to which two or more augmented reality application contribute. The shared renderer then provides a single output presentation based on the shared state information. Among other aspects, the shared renderer includes a permission mechanism by which applications can share information regarding object properties. The shared renderer may also include: a physics engine for simulating movement of at least one object that is represented by the shared state information; an annotation engine for managing a presentation of annotations produced by plural applications; and/or an occlusion engine for managing the behavior of the output presentation when two or more objects, produced by two or more applications, overlap within the output presentation.