Protecting privacy in web-based immersive augmented reality

US9679144B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · US

Inventors

• David Molnar · Seattle, US
• John Vilk · Amherst, US
• Eyal Ofek · Redmond, US
• Alexander Moshchuk · Kirkland, US
• Jiahe Helen Wang · Issaquah, US
• Ran Gal · Redmond, US
• Lior Shapira · Redmond, US
• Douglas C. Burger · Bellevue, US
• Blair MacIntyre · Atlanta, US
• Benjamin Livshits · Kirkland, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 15, 2013
• Grant date: Jun 13, 2017
• Expiry date: Apr 1, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04W12/65
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An “AR Privacy API” provides an API that allows applications and web browsers to use various content rendering abstractions to protect user privacy in a wide range of web-based immersive augmented reality (AR) scenarios. The AR Privacy API extends the traditional concept of “web pages” to immersive “web rooms” wherein any desired combination of existing or new 2D and 3D content is rendered within a user's room or other space. Advantageously, the AR Privacy API and associated rendering abstractions are useable by a wide variety of applications and web content for enhancing the user's room or other space with web-based immersive AR content. Further, the AR Privacy API is implemented using any existing or new web page coding platform, including, but not limited to HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, etc., thereby enabling existing web content and coding techniques to be smoothly integrated into a wide range of web room AR scenarios.