Artificial reality system architecture for concurrent application execution and collaborative 3D scene rendering

US11132827B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Facebook Technologies, LLC · US

Inventors

• Denis Gladkov · San Francisco, US
• Daniel Lehmann · Frankfurt, DE
• Paul B. Menage · Sunnyvale, US
• Clifford Merritt Boyd · Mountain View, US
• Anton Vaneev · Oceanside, US
• Luiz Alfonso Coimbra Barbosa Silva · Redwood City, US
• Mandeep S Baines · Cupertino, US
• Aaron David Lieberman · Seattle, US
• Rodney Huff · Tiburon, US
• Cyril Daniel Saint Girons · Seattle, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 19, 2019
• Grant date: Sep 28, 2021
• Expiry date: Sep 19, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F9/45512
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The disclosure describes a distributed, pluggable architecture for an artificial reality (AR) system that enables concurrent execution and collaborative scene rendering for multiple artificial reality applications. For example, an AR system includes an image capture device configured to capture image data representative of a physical environment. The AR system also includes a head-mounted display (HMD) configured to output artificial reality content. The AR system further includes a plurality of concurrently executing artificial reality client applications. The AR system also includes a concurrent application engine configured to control rendering the artificial reality content as a common scene that include one or more objects from each of the plurality of artificial reality applications.