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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2016
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Otmar Hilliges, Cambridge, GB;
David Kim, Cambridge, GB;
Shahram Izadi, Cambridge, GB;
David Molyneaux, Oldham, GB;
Stephen Edward Hodges, Cambridge, GB;
David Alexander Butler, Cambridge, GB;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Augmented reality with direct user interaction is described. In one example, an augmented reality system comprises a user-interaction region, a camera that captures images of an object in the user-interaction region, and a partially transparent display device which combines a virtual environment with a view of the user-interaction region, so that both are visible at the same time to a user. A processor receives the images, tracks the object's movement, calculates a corresponding movement within the virtual environment, and updates the virtual environment based on the corresponding movement. In another example, a method of direct interaction in an augmented reality system comprises generating a virtual representation of the object having the corresponding movement, and updating the virtual environment so that the virtual representation interacts with virtual objects in the virtual environment. From the user's perspective, the object directly interacts with the virtual objects.