Automatic generation of virtual materials from real-world materials

US9779512B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · US

Inventors

• Arthur Tomlin · Bellevue, US
• Roger Sebastian Sylvan · Seattle, US
• Dan Kroymann · Seattle, US
• Cameron Brown · Redmond, US
• Nicholas Gervase Fajt · Seattle, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 29, 2015
• Grant date: Oct 3, 2017
• Expiry date: Jan 29, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B2027/0178
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Methods for automatically generating a texture exemplar that may be used for rendering virtual objects that appear to be made from the texture exemplar are described. In some embodiments, a head-mounted display device (HMD) may identify a real-world object within an environment, acquire a three-dimensional model of the real-world object, determine a portion of the real-world object from which a texture exemplar is to be generated, capture one or more images of the portion of the real-world object, determine an orientation of the real-world object, and generate the texture exemplar using the one or more images, the three-dimensional model, and the orientation of the real-world object. The HMD may then render and display images of a virtual object such that the virtual object appears to be made from a virtual material associated with the texture exemplar.